TX 044 FUNDAMENTAL OF COLOUR SCIENCE

ANNA UNIVERSITY :: CHENNAI – 600 025.
M.TECH. TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY
TX 044 FUNDAMENTAL OF COLOUR SCIENCE

1. Fundamental of Colour Science 15
The eye, the brain and the perception of colour – mechanism of colour vision, colour vision theories, defects of colour vision – colour vision tests – additive and subtractive colour mixing – confusion in colour perception. Beer’s Law, Lambert’s Law and Kubelka and Munk’s simplified model of theory of interaction of matter and radiation.

2. COLOUR ORDER SYSTEMS 9
Description of colour, various colour order systems. The CIE system and its components – the illuminants, the standard observer and the chromacity diagram.

3. COLOUR MATCHING 9
Reflectance curves of dyed samples, the application of the Kubelka-Munk theory to colour matching – Techniques of computer colour matching – prediction of colour recipe – limitations of computer colour matching.

4. METAMERISM 3
Illuminant metamerism, observer metamerism, geometric metamerism, assessment of metamerism, metamerism in textiles.

5. Colour Difference Measurements and Colour Assessment in Textiles 9
Visual colour assessment, variables, standard conditions and methods of visual assessment and evaluation. Instrumental colour assessement – colour difference equations and measurements – pass fail standards.

TOTAL : 45

REFERENCES
1. Shah, H.S., and R.S. Gandhi, “Instrumental Colour Measurement and Computer Aided Colour Matching for Textiles”, Mahajan Book Distributions, Ahmedabad, 1990.
2. Wyszecki.G., and W.S.Stile, “Colour Science Concept and Methods, Quantitative Data and Formulas”, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1982.
3. Bilmeyer, F.W., and M.Saltzman, “Principles of Colour Technology”, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1981.