Lightness and Brightness and Other Confusions

Index
fn = in footnote
A
achromatic (colour) 24, 85, 88
action (in perception) 36, 38–42,
69, 95, 99, 100, 104
adaptation 13, 16, 24, 25, 36, 72, 74,
75, 99–100
Adelson, Edward 70, 75–76
additive (light) mixture 77, 80, 83
additive primaries see: primaries
aesthetics 5, 15, 25–26, 36, 43
Aristotle 11
Arstila, Valtteri 93
art (and colour) 5, 27– 31 passim,
41–42, 47, 51, 78-79
attention 35, 37, 40–43, 49
– mode of 23–24, 42, 95, 97–100
– structure 23
average observer 11, 83
B
basic colour terms 48, 49
Baumgarten, Gottlieb 25–26
Billmayer, Fred 83–89 passim
binary hue 10-11
blackness 10, 30, 49, 68, 71, 72, 80,
81, 88-89, 91
brightness 27, 47, 48, 67–76, 85, 86,
87, 88–89, 91
Broad, C. D. 20
C
candela 59, 75, 60
categorical perception 27–28
Chabris, Christopher 40
chroma 13, 67, 84, 85–91
chromaticity 67, 84, 87–88, 91
chromaticity diagram 9, 61, 89, 91
chromaticity coordinates 62
chromaticness 27, 30, 67, 71, 72, 84,
87–88
CIE (International Commission on
Illumination)
– CIE Standard Observer 9
– CIECAM02 77
– CIELAB 60, 62, 77, 81, 87
– CIELUV 62, 77
CMYK 57, 81
colorimetry 9, 49, 60–64, 65, 76,
82, 87, 88, 89, 94, 104
colour
– and music 26, 78 fn
– appearance 7–10, 12, 30, 57, 60,
62, 65, 85, 94 fn, 95, 97–98, 103
– circle 78–79, 80 fn
– constancy 42, 92–93, 98, 99
– deficiency 11, 46
– discrimination 49, 61, 62, 81, 83
– gamut 61, 62, 81, 83
– identification 49, 68, 94
– impurity 71
– intensity 68–70, 80–91, see also:
saturation (of colour) and vividness
(of colour)
– mixing 7, 8, 76, 77, 78, 80–84, 85,
91
– purity 60, 84, 85, 88–89, 91
– sample 8–9, 12, 13, 52, 57, 63–64,
68, 81 fn, 89, 94–96, 98, 100
– space 29, 61, 68, 71, 80–91
– strength 69, 84, 85, 90, see also:
saturation (of colour) and vividness
(of colour)
105