Light and color in nature and art pdf

Wave Aspects of Light. Light, Matter, and Quanta. Measuring Light. Producing Light. Ray Optics. The Eye and Vision. Color in Art. Light and Color in the Atmosphere.

Advanced Topics. Further Reading. Daniel Overheim and David L. Wagner, both of Edinboro State College This concise easy-to-teach textbook describes the physical nature of light, the analysis of color, the mechanisms of color vision, and the fundamentals of geometric and wave optics.

Limited use of mathematics and physics combined with an easy, conversational writing style makes this book particularly appealing to students of art, photography, drama stage lighting and design , television, architecture, interior and fashion design, and psychology. Students are carefully introduced to different kinds of light sources continuum, bright-line , and the concepts, of reflection, transmission, absorption and additive and subtractive primary colors.

Other chapters deal directly with color - specifically colorimetry, color vision, the appearance of objects, and natural color phenomena. Extensively illustrated with color plates. Instructor's Manual available. Billmeyer, Jr. Basic theory remains the same but in many cases, practice has become considerably more automated. This second edition includes more extensive coverage of metamerism, non-color problems - quality control, techniques of sampling and sample preparation, application of simple statistics, and methods for instrument selection.

The authors also discuss some unsolved problems; for which technology has not fully developed. Uploaded by Sketch the Cow on May 29, Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.

Judging Shape and Motion. Rainbows, Halos, and Coronas. Light and Color of the Sky. Light and Color in the Landscape. Luminous Plants, Animals, and Stones. Back Matter Pages About this book Introduction All of science springs from the observation of nature. In this classic book, the late Marcel Minnaert accompanies the reader on a tour of nature's light and color and reveals the myriad phenomena that may be observed outdoors with no more than a pair of sharp eyes and an enquiring mind.

From the intriguing shape of the dapples beneath a tree on a sunny day, to rainbows, mirages, and haloes, to the colors of liquid, ice, and the sky, to the appearance of the sun, moon, planets, and stars - Minnaert describes and explains them all in clear language accessible to the layman.