Course: Colorimetry

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Course title Colorimetry
Course code KPF/C746
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Panák Ondrej, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Veselý Michal, prof. Ing. CSc.
Course content
Human visual system (3h lesson) Colour perception and appearance Colour order systems Colorimetry Measuring and viewing conditions Theories and models of colour mixing Introduction to colour management, Components of colour management Building input profiles Building display profiles Building output profiles

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Skills training
Learning outcomes
This course covers the application and importance of colour to graphic design. Emphasis is placed on psychological and physiological aspects of colour, standard viewing conditions, chromatic adaptation, dark and light adaptation. This course describes apparatus used in colorimetry - densitometer, colorimeter, spectrophotometer and their applications. Program enables graduate to follow all the necessary tasks required in the printing industry from image input and output of final images ready for the printing machining processes and pre-press multimedia.
Absolvent is able to evaluate quality of colour prints and express it in form of colour differences, with the knowledge of their computation. He/she is able to consider problems connected with colour measurements and evaluation as well as the factors of subjective colour assessment. Student is qualified in colour management and profile building. Absolvent is qualified for work in preprees, and colour measurements not only in graphic arts industry.
Prerequisites
Pass in Reproduction Processes in Printing Technology.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination

The exam consists of credit and oral examination. The credit consist of comutational tasks. To pass it, student need to obtain 60 or more % of points. At the oral examination, student gets tree questions form three selected topics. If student does not pass through any part of the exam (test, or one of the questions), the whole exam is evaluated as ?fail?.
Recommended literature
  • Dohnal M. Fyzikální základy reprodukce obrazu, 2. vydání. Univerzita Pardubice, 2007. ISBN 978-80-71949459.
  • Hunter. The Measurement of Appearance. John Wiley & Sons, 1974.
  • Mausfeld, Rainer. Colour perception : mind and the physical world. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-19-850500-0.
  • Nassau, Kurt. The physics and chemistry of color : the fifteen causes of color. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. ISBN 0-471-39106-9.
  • Prof. RNDr. Marie Kaplanová, CSc. a kolektiv. Moderní polygrafie. 2010. ISBN 978-80-254-4230-2.
  • Wyszecki, Günther. Color science : concepts and methods, quantitative data and formulae. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1982. ISBN 0-471-39918-3.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology Study plan (Version): Graphic Arts and Printing Technology (2013) Category: Printing, working with paper, film and photography 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology Study plan (Version): Graphic Arts and Printing Technology (2015) Category: Printing, working with paper, film and photography 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology Study plan (Version): Graphic Arts and Printing Technology (2016) Category: Printing, working with paper, film and photography 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer