Erwin Schrödinger's Color theory : translated with modern commentary / Keith K. Niall, editor.
| Author/creator | Schrödinger, Erwin author. |
| Other author | Niall, Keith K., 1955- translator, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017. |
| Description | x, 193 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Farbenmetrik. English |
| Incomplete content | 1. Schrödinger's color theory and its background -- 2. Outlines of a theory of photopic colorimetry (part I): Basic colorimetry, of affine color properties (first article) -- 3. Outlines of a theory of photopic colorimetry (part II): Basic colorimetry of affine color properties, continued (first article) -- 4. Outlines of a theory of photopic colorimetry (part III): Advanced colorimetry, or a full-blooded colorimetry (second article) -- 5. A metric of color -- 6. A theory of pigments of maximum luminous efficiency -- 7. On the origin of the eye's sensitivity curves -- 8. On the subjective color of starlight and the quality of twilight sensation -- 9. On the relation of the tetrachromatic theory to the trichromatic theory -- References. |
| Summary | This book presents the most complete translation to date of Erwin Schrödinger?s work on colorimetry. In his work Schrödinger proposed a projective geometry of color space, rather than a Euclidean line-element. He also proposed new (at the time) colorimetric methods ? in detail and at length - which represented a dramatic conceptual shift in colorimetry. Schrödinger shows how the trichromatic (or Young-Helmholtz) theory of color and the opponent-process (or Hering) theory of color are formally the same theory, or at least only trivially different. These translations of Schrödinger?s bold concepts for color space have a fresh resonance and importance for contemporary color theory. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN | 9783319646190 |
| ISBN | 3319646192 |