good mixture of theory and usable code
Written: May 23 '07
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Pros: source code
Cons: theory not fully developed
The Bottom Line: If you work with color use matlab you'll find this book very useful unless you are already such an expert that you've written your own color toolbox.
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| alan's Full Review: Stephen Westland and Caterina Ripamonti - Computat... |
There are a decent number of books out there on color science; what sets this book apart from all of those is that it also provides a good bit of code which you can use for monitor/printer/camera calibration and translation between all the major color spaces. Those other books leave you only with equations and a lot of theory to sort through.
That said, if you want a really detailed coverage of the issues, such as the pros and cons of different CIE color spaces, this book won't do you much good. In the end I was glad to have also looked at other, more theoretical texts, but could have gotten away with having just read this book, whereas the reverse would not be true. Note that if you are really cheap, you can get the source code from the author's website (http://colourware.co.uk/compute/toolbox.htm) without buying the book, but I would recommend getting the book to understand the issues of using the source code.
Topics covered:
* very minimal amount of matlab syntax
* minimal intro to linear algebra
* conversion between different color spaces
* calibration of CRTs, printers (using neural nets to train the mapping function!), and cameras
* multispectral imaging
Recommended:
Yes
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