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History of Color Metrics

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Though the physical principles and visual mechanisms underlying color have been studied for centuries, the modern colorimetric system used to quantify and specify the color properties of light sources and illumination had not even begun to be developed 100 years ago. Because color only exists when the physical properties of light and materials interact with the human visual system, any such system must essentially model the link between physics and perception. This is an enormously difficult task and the colorimetric system hasn’t always been successful. Nonetheless, since the origin of colorimetry in the early twentieth century, remarkable progress has been made.

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  1. University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Wendy Davis

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  1. Smart Lighting Engineering Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

    Robert Karlicek

  2. Department of Optics and Photonics, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan

    Ching-Cherng Sun

  3. Toulouse University, Toulouse, France

    Georges Zissis

  4. OLED Lighting, Universal Display Corporation, Ewing, USA

    Ruiqing Ma

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Davis, W. (2015). History of Color Metrics. In: Karlicek, R., Sun, CC., Zissis, G., Ma, R. (eds) Handbook of Advanced Lighting Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00295-8_59-1

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