Introduction: Explore and experiment -- Why color? -- What is color? -- Primary colors in light -- Other spectral colors -- The color circle and color spaces -- Additive color mixing revisited -- Subtractive mixing -- What is white light? -- Saturation -- Color dominance -- Monochromatic and polychromatic palettes -- Color rendering, limited spectrum sources, and new color spaces -- Revisiting dominant and recessive colors -- Dimming, dousing and redshift -- Additive mixing in a world of LEDs -- Color paths revisited -- Metamerism : developing a new language of color -- Creating work that can be reproduced -- Conclusion: Where we are going -- Appendix A : Design for a lighting lab -- Appendix B : A form for recording mixed colors.
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