ICS and the development of colour management systems

Abstract

What is colour? The definition in dictionaries is as follows: A property whereby bodies have different appearances to the eye through surfact reflection or absorption of rays of light. As U. Oldbrich points out in his recent article on instrumental colour measurement, this is a fairly abstract way of looking at something as important and interesting as colour. He states that he introduces it merely to emphasise that for someone to perceive colour he requires three things: an object, a light source, in order to see the object, and a detector, which is normally the human eye and the brain. The question we have to ask is whether we view it with our eyes or with an extremely sophisticated measuring instrument?

Citation

(1988), "ICS and the development of colour management systems", Pigment & Resin Technology, Vol. 17 No. 1, pp. 15-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb042436