Title Color Measurement : Theme and Variations Author(s) MacAdam, D.L Publication Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1981. Description XIII, 232 p : online resource Abstract Note Color is attractive and interesting to everyone. Consequently, control of color is important to all producers, buyers, sellers, and users of colored materials. In various ways, color is an indication of freshness, quality, or other desirable (or undesirable) characteristics of goods. To assure acceptability, saleability, and favorable price - especially in contracts and monitoring of conformance to specifications - numerical expression of color is greatly superior to verbal descriptions. Disagreements concerning words or visual comparisons with samples are all too likely and frequent. Such disagreements underlie much un?? pleasantness and loss in commerce in consumer goods. Such loss of money and good will must amount to billions of dollars per year, world wide. Persistent efforts to substitute measurements of color for visual judgment have marked the twentieth century. Because visual perception of small color differences is so acute, the requirements for accuracy and world-wide repro?? ducibility of color measurements have been severe. Only during the last half century have practical spectrophotometers with adequate accuracy been avail?? able ISBN,Price 9783662135082 Keyword(s) 1. CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS 2. EBOOK 3. EBOOK - SPRINGER 4. ELECTRODYNAMICS 5. MICROSCOPY 6. OPTICS 7. SOLID STATE PHYSICS 8. SPECTROSCOPY 9. Spectroscopy and Microscopy Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I02368     On Shelf