Color Imaging and Reproduction Color Production Color Reproduction Color Measurement Calibrated Color Reproduction What is Color? Red, Green, Yellow, ... Hue, Tone, Tint ... Response of Eye to Stimulus Perception of Stimulus Anything Not a Mask Color Devices Device Characteristics Additive or Subtractive Bilevel or Multilevel Monitors (Additive) Printers (Subtractive) Color Monitors Red, Green, Blue Primaries Three Phosphor Dots/Pixel Multilevel Full Color Color Lookup Tables 40 spi to 100 spi Color Printers Three or Four Color Cyan, Magenta, Yellow Above Plus Black CMY, CMYK Bilevel or Multilevel 150 to 2500 spi Digital Color Printing Bilevel Technologies Inkjet Electrostatic Xerography Thermal Transfer Offset Printing Multilevel Technologies Photographic Processes Thermal Sublimation Halftone Patterns Pattern of Variable Sized Dots Halftone Screen Originally Mechanical 50 to 200 lines/inch Different Rotations Trade Spatial Resolution for Grayscale Digital Halftones Multiple Printer Pixels/Dot Gray Levels vs. Sharp Edges 10:1 typical 10 by 10 = 101 gray levels 150 lines = 1500 spi Digital Color Printers Poor Resolution Good Alignment Designing Colors on Monitors for Printers Additive vs. Subtractive Color Different Viewing Environments User Model Functional Color Select Percentage CMYK RGB to CMY(K) Automatically Color Reproduction Goal Same Image Different Output Devices Same Appearance Graphic Arts Rules-of-Thumb Customer Satisfaction Color Names Don't Change Gray Scale is Smooth and Gray Good Contrast Gray Scale Production Monitors R=G=B is Gray Gamma Correction Linear in Intensity Printers C=M=Y is Not Gray Gray Balancing Linear in Density Density = Log[1/R] RGB to CMY(K) If Inks were Ideal Filters [C,M,Y] = [1,1,1] - [R, G, B] Inks are Not Ideal Filters Spectra Overlap Not Inverse of Monitor Spectra Color Correction Required Color Correction Map Input to Output Colors Compensate For Color Impurity For Color of Primaries Different Gamuts Techniques Single Linear Transformation Piecewise Interpolation Color Measurement Measure What the Eye Sees Colorimetry Instruments Measure the Stimulus Empirically Derived Metrics Standardized by the CIE Device Calibration Define Device Properties in Colorimetric Terms Model or Measure Set of All Possible Colors Defines Gamut Calibrated Color Reproduction Color Correction Based on Colorimetric Information Calibrated Devices Possible Reproduction Levels Match Surfaces Match Tristimulus Values Match Chromaticity Coordinates Match Appearance AIC Experiment Color in Computer Generated Displays AIC Interim Meeting, 19-20 June 1986 Color Research and Application Vol. 11, Supplement, June 1986 John Wiley and Sons, NY, NY With John Beatty and William Cowan What We Learned Goal is Appearance Match Map to Control Appearance Map to Control Out-of-Gamut Colors Don't Match Exact Tristimulus Values Chromaticity Coordinates Conclusions Increasing Number of Digital Color Devices Many are Poor Quality Many are Badly Used Color Reproduction Important Issue for Computer Graphics Community Color Measurement Key to Quality Reproduction JColorImagingText.tioga Maureen Stone, July 22, 1987 10:21:21 pm PDT Κͺ•WordlistkImaging Inkjet Pixel Phosphor Multilevel Bilevel CMY RGB Subtractive CMYK vs Halftone Sublimation Cyan spi ˜™Icode™,—head˜K˜K˜K˜K˜—˜K˜K˜K˜K˜K˜—˜ ˜J˜J˜—J˜J˜—˜K˜Kšœ˜˜ Kšœ ˜ Kšœ˜—K˜—˜˜K˜K˜K˜ —K˜K˜—˜˜J˜J˜ J˜ J˜J˜—˜J˜J˜——˜K˜˜K˜K˜K˜—J˜&—˜J˜˜J˜ J˜J˜—˜J˜J˜——˜)J˜J˜˜ J˜J˜J˜——˜˜J˜ J˜J˜—˜J˜J˜J˜J˜ ——˜˜K˜K˜K˜—˜Kšœ˜K˜K˜—K˜—˜ ˜K˜—J˜˜J˜J˜—J˜—˜K˜˜ K˜K˜K˜—˜ K˜K˜——˜J˜J˜˜ Jšœ!˜!J˜J˜——˜J˜.J˜Jšœ(˜(—˜J˜2J˜J˜˜J˜J˜J˜J˜——˜šœ$˜$Kšœ$˜$—šΟi˜Kšœ˜Kšœ˜—Kšœ"˜"—˜˜K˜K˜"—˜K˜K˜——˜ ˜*J˜J˜—J˜˜BJ˜—J˜-——…— :.