ONLINE: You think you know color? You don’t. Color contains wonders and surprises that amaze, astound and confound. Is color a human construct, or a fundamental part of nature? Would an alien, or a parakeet, agree with us on colors? Do images from space telescopes or Mars landers show "true" colors? For that matter, do photographs? Or displays? After taking this course you will understand the answers to all these questions. This nine-week lecture-based course has three sections: 1) Color Vision: the physics of light, the biology of the eye, how the brain processes color and math of color vision, 2) Color Technology: color models such as CIE, and color reproduction in print and in display, and 3) Color Perception: using color to visualize data, using color in graphical design and color vision in aliens. This course will illuminate the confusions, myths and amazing facts about color. | Lecture + Q&A.
Max enrollment: 200.
Class sessions are recorded.
