Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology

Book Preface

Color is everywhere in daily life. It makes the world vibrant and exciting.However, we frequently make difficult color decisions and struggle to describe them precisely. Color on its own spans physics, chemistry, computing, psychology, and perception, and contributes fundamentally to art, design, and media.With this in mind, the primary goal of this publication was to provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary reference to the main fields in which color is relevant. It can be used to promote the fields of color science and technology, to cover a wide range of disciplines, to provide good introductory material for beginners, and to attract a new generation of color researchers and engineers. I am very proud to say we have successfully achieved this goal. Readers will be able to survey information on color related subjects from many different aspects and influence the way people work with color. It has been a great honor and pleasure to coordinate this ambitious project. As an educator in the field of color technology, I have been fortunate to lead the project that includes 14 sections divided into 254 chapters. In total, 153 experts were invited to contribute to the work. This is the first reference work to refer to color from the different points of view of color vision, color appearance, optical phenomena, colorants, metrology, color spaces, and many other color related topics. It also includes domain specific entries such as color and visualization, color in graphics, image processing, and color management.

Readers can access each topic as a printed reference and also as part of Springer online reference material. In addition, each author will continue to update their material for years to come. Although a substantial amount of work has been accomplished, it is planned to extend the encyclopaedia to include new content as it becomes relevant and available.

Ming Ronnier Luo