PHYSICAL OPTICS
cod. 14686

Academic year 2007/08
3° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Fisica sperimentale (FIS/01)
Field
Formazione interdisciplinare
Type of training activity
Related/supplementary
16 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
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course unit
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Learning objectives

Knowledge  of the theory, of the instrumental practice and of the industrial use of colorimetry

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<br />Elements of physiology of the visual system. CIE standard illuminants and standard light sources. Radiometric quantities (International System). Photometric quantities (CIE 1924 and CIE 1988 standard photometric observers). Tristimulus space and conventional observers (CIE31, CIE64) and reference frames (RGB, XYZ, LMS, .). Psychometric systems CIE 1976 (CIELAB and CIELUV). Spectral reflectance factor measurement.<br />Colorimetric computations (CIE and ASTM norms). Colour-difference formulae (CMC, CIE 94, CIE 2000). Colourant formulation (eq. K-M-S). Screen plate printing (Neugebauer equation). Television, computer monitor, digital camera, scanner (sRGB standard). Metamerism index, whiteness index, tint index, gloss factor. Fluorescent colours. Colour atlases (Munsell, DIN, OSA-UCS, NCS).

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />a cura di Claudio Oleari, Misurare il colore, Hoepli editore, Milano 1998

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