David Bromley
Color Theory
Synopsis of Lecture Topics and Excerpts of Slide Presentations
Prehistoric Color Palette - The Ancient World - Color in Hierarchical Social Systems - Revolutionary Colorists: Grünewald and el Greco - Optical Mixing of Colors: Delacroix and van Gogh
Impressionistic Color Theory - Chevreuls Colour Theory - Seurat and Pointillism - Subtractive Color Theory and Television
Bauhaus School - Complimentary Colors and Context - Hans Hofmann's "Push - Pull Theory" - "Optical" Artists - Additive and Subtractive Color Mixing Theories - Color Temperature
The Interaction of Color by Albers - Lateral Inhibition - Ludimar Hermann
Successive Contrast - Bezold Effect - Weber-Fechner Law - The Munsell and Ostwald Color Trees - Spectral Energy Distribution - Spectral Transmittance Curve
Hero - Ptolemy - Alhazen - Kepler - Descartes - Newton - Snell - Young - Goethe - Wave Particle Duality - von Helmholz
Historical Color Wheels - Review of the Visible Spectrum - Review of Additive Color - Electromagnetic Spectrum - Kelvin Scale - Speed of Light - Newton's Rings
Camera Obscura and Leonardo - Particle Theory - Wave Theory - Agricola and Color Temperature - Draper and Spectroscope - Janssen, Ramsay and Helium - Planck, Einstein and Quanta Theory - Niels Bohrs' Atomic Model - Heat and Light
Fluorescence and Hennig Brand - Luminous Creatures - Bacterial Lights - Rhodopsin - Atmospheric Refraction - Filament Light Bulb vs. Fluorescent - Geissler Tube - Crookes Tube - Braun Tube - JJ Thomson - Electron Optics - Robert Williams Wood and Infrared Photography - Night Vision - Aurora Borealis
X-Rays: Röntgen - Diffraction Grating - Braking of Electrons - X-Ray Spectrometers
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