| Color Theory and Modeling for Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Multimedia Applications deals with color vision and visual computing. This book provides an overview of the human visual system with an emphasis on color vision and perception. The book then goes on to discuss how human color vision and perception are applied in several applications using computer-generated displays, such as computer graphics and information and data visualization. Color Theory and Modeling for Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Multimedia Applications is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on computer graphics, computer imaging, or multimedia computing and as a reference for researchers and practitioners developing computer graphics and multimedia applications.
Imagine a world in which the colors you see do not necessarily represent the
correct ones. Imagine, when you approach a traffic light, you cannot tell what
color the light is. Imagine the colors of traffic lights changing from one block
to the next one. Could you?
If you can’t, just go to your computer. In the world of visual computing, you
cannot be sure what the colors will be. Even today. And today, the awareness
of computer professionals to color has grown orders of magnitude.
When I got introduced to some interesting color problems in medical imaging
back in 1984 (and thus reintroduced to color, which I had researched and explored
in the seventies), it seemed like nobody really bothered; there were very
few publications that attempted to understand the relationship between color
and the computer.
Within a few years, that number grew significantly. Finally, people were beginning
to realize that, just as colors play such an important role in our day-to-day
life, they are important on our computer displays. And, thus, color should be
studied, and the appropriate usage on computer displays should be explored,
understood, and practiced. I cannot say we have reached that stage, yet, but I
am glad to report that progress has been made.
This book is the result of over a dozen years of research, teaching, consulting,
and advising, first at the Medical Image Processing Group, Department of
Radiology, the University of Pennsylvania, and then here at the Institute for
Visualization and Perception Research and the Graphics Research Laboratory
at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. |
