Color and Its Applications

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D. Van Nostrand Company, 1921 - Color - 419 pages
"The aim of this book is to present a condensed treatment of the science of color. An attempt has been made to cover as many phases of the subject as possible within the confines of a small volume. During several years of experimental work in the science of color I have been brought into contact with many persons interested in its applications, and the desire has been frequently expressed for a book that treated the science of color as far as possible from the viewpoint of those interested in the many applications of color. These applications are constantly increasing in scope and interest. With this viewpoint in mind I have attempted to treat the subject, exercising my judgment in drawing freely from the work of other investigators in order to make the volume as comprehensive as possible. I do not feel that the work comprises a complete treatment, for there are many interesting phases of color science that have been barely touched upon, and some that have been purposely omitted, because of the danger of straying too far afield. It is believed, however, that this treatise will be helpful to those interested in any of the arts involving the science of color. I have referred to my own investigations quite freely, but trust that this will not be attributed to a lack of perspective. Naturally much of the text involves my own conclusions, but I have aimed to include only those that are supported by experimental data, because only in so far as they are thus supported does the work become authoritative"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).
 

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Page 75 - I'll be hanged if I can describe this red — it's not Turkish and it's not Roman and it's not Indian, but it seems to partake of the two last and yet it can't be either of them because it ought to be able to go with vermilion. Ah, what a tangled web we weave — anyway, with what brains you have left choose me and send me some — many — patterns of this exact shade.
Page 281 - For my landscape has a soul as well as a body. Its body is our great rock-ribbed mother-earth with her endless expanse of fields and hills, of rivers and surging seas. Its soul is the spirit of light — of sunlight, of moonlight, of starlight — which plays ceaselessly across the face of the landscape, veiling it at night in mystery and shadow, painting it at dawn with the colors of the pearl-shell, and bathing it at mid-day in a luminous glory.
Page 141 - If any part of the retina is excited with intermittent light, recurring periodically and regularly in the same way, and if the period is sufficiently short, a continuous impression will result, which is the same as that which would result if the total light received during each period were uniformly distributed throughout the whole period.
Page 185 - The character of the stimulus and impulse differs according to the wave-length of the light causing it. In the impulse itself we have the physiological basis of the sensation of light, and in the quality of the impulse the physiological basis of the sensation of colour. The impulse being conveyed along the optic nerve to the brain...
Page 184 - The decomposition of the visual purple by light chemically stimulates the ends of the cones (very probably through the electricity which is produced), and a visual impulse is set up, which is conveyed through the optic nerve fibres to the brain.
Page 75 - Our sitting-room is to be in varnished wood. The room I have particularly in mind is a sort of bed and sitting room, pretty large, lit on three sides, and the colour in favour of its proprietor at present is a topazy yellow. But then with what colour to relieve it? For a little work-room of my own at the back I should rather like to see some patterns of unglossy — well, I'll be hanged if I can describe this red. It's not Turkish, and it's not Roman, and it's not Indian; but it seems to partake...
Page 75 - I have particularly in mind is a sort of bed and sitting room, pretty large, lit on three sides, and the colour in favour of its proprietor at present is a topazy yellow. But then with what colour to relieve it ? For a little work-room of my own at the back I should rather like to see some patterns of unglossy — well I'll be hanged if I can describe this red — it's not Turkish and it's not Roman and it's not Indian, but it seems to partake of the two last and yet it can't be either of them because...
Page 184 - The ends of the cones are stimulated through the photochemical decomposition of the visual purple by light (very probably through the electricity which is produced), and a visual impulse is set up which is conveyed through the optic nerve fibres to the brain. The character of the stimulus differs according to the wave length of the light causing it.
Page 185 - ... of colour. I have assumed that the quality of the impulse is perceived by a special perceptive centre in the brain within the power of perceiving differences possessed by that centre, or portions of that centre.
Page 343 - ... discussed later. Colored glasses can be treated much in the same manner as dye-solutions. A given concentration of coloring material in a glass (that is, a given colored glass) apparently obeys the same law relating to thickness and transmission factor for a given wave-length as a dye-solution. However, it is not established that the introduction of various amounts of the coloring material (generally metallic oxides) results in corresponding concentration, as would be true in the case of dyes....

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