Light and Colour Theories, and their relation to light and colour standardizationLovibond, Joseph W. (Joseph Williams)
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Light and Colour Theories, and their relation to light and colour standardization
Lovibond, Joseph W. (Joseph Williams)
Color; Light
It has no photographic action on the six sensitised papers dealt with
in the photographic section.
LIGHT INTENSITIES.
The apparatus for determining the unit values of light intensities
in the following series of measurements, consisted of a conical
rectangular hopper tapering from 2 feet to 2 inches square. This was
adapted so that the light from the small end, commanded the stage of
the optical instrument sufficiently close to cut off outside light.
The wide end facing a north sky was adapted with sliding shutters, to
regulate the area of incident light; of the six water-colour pigments
which nearest corresponded to the standard colours, washed to their
full depth on Whatman’s paper, six measurements were made. These
measurements are shown in Table IV, and classified in Table V.
It will be noted that the readings are constant for all the colours
between 16 and 26 units, except a variation of light ·15 in the 24-inch
opening, which is in effect as if the cone was not present, and ·2 in
the 8-inch area of orange.
Note.--Experiments in this branch give some information
relating to the perception of colour under daylight conditions,
by limiting the range of intensities within which colour can
be distinguished and differentiated, whilst their separate
photographic action (page 48) suggests the impression that
colour phenomena, outside these limits, may be a physiological
expression of widely varying underlying energies.
TABLE IV.
-------------+---------+----------+--------+--------+---------+-------
| Square | | | | |
Pigment. | Inches | Light | Black. | Red. | Orange. |
|Aperture.|Intensity.| | | |
-------------+---------+----------+--------+--------+---------+-------
Carmine | 2 | 10 | ·5 | 20·2 | ·3 | ----
" | 4 | 11 | ·5 | 19·1 | ·4 | ----
" | 6 | 14 | ·46 | 18·95| ·59 | ----
" | 8 | 16 | ---- | 16·9 | 1·1 | ----
" | 10 | 20 | ---- | 16·9 | 1·1 | ----
" | 12 | 22 | ---- | 16·9 | 1·1 | ----
" | Open | 26 | ---- | 16·9 | 1·1 | ----
-------------+---------+----------+--------+--------+---------+-------
| | | | Yellow | |
Lemon Yellow | 2 | 10 | ---- | 6·9 | ·1 | ----
" " | 4 | 11 | ---- | 6·9 | ·1 | ----
" " | 6 | 14 | ---- | 6·9 | ·1 | ----
" " | 8 | 16 | ---- | 7·0 | ---- | ----
" " | 10 | 20 | ---- | 7·0 | ---- | ----
" " | 12 | 22 | ---- | 7·0 | ---- | ----
" " | Open | 26 | ---- | 7·0 | ---- | ----
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