Lightness and Brightness and Other Confusions
Lightness and Brightness and Other Confusions
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Further Reading<br />
Arnkil, Harald (due in 2012).<br />
Colours in the Visual World.<br />
Aalto University School of Arts,<br />
Design <strong>and</strong> Architecture, Helsinki.<br />
Originally published in Finnish<br />
as Värit havaintojen maailmassa,<br />
this h<strong>and</strong>book for artists, designers<br />
<strong>and</strong> architects is due to appear in a<br />
revised English-language edition in<br />
October 2012. The emphasis is on<br />
contemporary theories of perception<br />
<strong>and</strong> their relation to the aesthetic <strong>and</strong><br />
functional <strong>and</strong> application of colour in<br />
art, design <strong>and</strong> architecture. Each<br />
chapter ends with a set of study assignments.<br />
Berns, Roy S. (2000). Billmeyer<br />
<strong>and</strong> Saltzman’s Principles of<br />
Color Technology, 3rd Edition.<br />
Wiley-Interscience. This a completely<br />
revised third edition of Fred<br />
Billmeyer’s <strong>and</strong> Max Saltzman’s a<br />
classic work that originally appeared<br />
in 1967. It covers just about every imaginable<br />
aspect of colour technology,<br />
combining the clarity <strong>and</strong> ease of use<br />
of earlier editions with two decades of<br />
advancement in colour theory <strong>and</strong><br />
technology. Roy Berns, a former student<br />
of Billmeyer <strong>and</strong> Saltzman is<br />
Professor of imaging science at Rochester<br />
Institute of Technology.<br />
Billger, Monica (1999). Colour in<br />
Enclosed Space: Observation of<br />
Colour Phenomena <strong>and</strong> Development<br />
of Methods for Identification<br />
of Colour Appearance in<br />
Rooms. Doctoral dissertation,<br />
Department of Building Design –<br />
Theoretical <strong>and</strong> Applied Aesthetics,<br />
School of Architecture,<br />
Chalmers University of Technology,<br />
Göteborg, Sweden. Monica<br />
Billger’s dissertation presents a new<br />
method for assessing the perceived<br />
differences of colour in interiors illuminated<br />
respectively by either daylight<br />
or different types of artificial<br />
lights. The effects of simultaneous<br />
contrast <strong>and</strong> reflections in space are<br />
examined <strong>and</strong> the book includes a discussion<br />
of what colour is as a physical<br />
property <strong>and</strong> as a perceptual quality.<br />
Fridell Anter, Karin (2000), What<br />
Colour is the Red House? – Perceived<br />
colour of painted facades.<br />
Doctoral dissertation,<br />
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan,<br />
Stockholm. Involving a thorough<br />
theoretical discussion of the problem,<br />
<strong>and</strong> analysing the results of over 3600<br />
observations in the open air, this research<br />
investigates the way colours of<br />
painted facades change visually in relation<br />
to light, surroundings <strong>and</strong> distance.<br />
The results reveal clear <strong>and</strong> interesting<br />
patterns.<br />
Gibson, James J. (1986). The Ecological<br />
Approach to Visual Perception.<br />
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,<br />
New Jersey. Gibson revised<br />
his earlier theories on perception<br />
in this book, published just before<br />
his death. The texts are a radical departure<br />
from the pervasive theories of<br />
visual perception in the 1980s. They<br />
are still as fresh as when Gibson wrote<br />
them <strong>and</strong> many of his ideas are being<br />
followed up today.<br />
Hardin, C. L. (1988), Color for<br />
philosophers: unweaving the<br />
rainbow. Extenden edition.<br />
Hackett Publishing Company,<br />
Indianapolis. A thorough examination<br />
of the physical <strong>and</strong> neurobiological<br />
facts behind colour phenomena<br />
<strong>and</strong> colour appearances.<br />
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