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Number 371 January/February 1998 I· N 21ST CENTURY TECH NO LOGY AND CREATIVITY 1998 Williamsburg Conference ...... 1 Color Cleaver ...... 1 1998 WILLIAMSBURG 1998 ISCC/OSA Annual Meeting ...... 2 CONFERENCE Interest Group I Call For Papers ...... 3 In This Issue of CR&A ...... 3 (FEBRUARY 22-24) GIA 1999 Symposium Cal l for Papers ...... 4 Fifth Color Imaging Conference Bigger than ever ..... 5 1'i'lr'he Inter -Society Color Counci I wi II be presenting an USNC/CIE ...... 6 ~o utstanding roster of professionals within design, the fine arts and industry who will address issues related AATCC ...... 7 to color as we approach the new millennium. These are CORM 98 ····························································· ··· 7 individuals who have made major contributions to their FSCT ...... 8 disciplines on a national and international level. The two and one-half day program will include opportunities for RIT Munsell Color Lab 1998 Industrial Short Course 9 speakers and attendees to interact within open scheduled News From Members ...... 10 discussions and social events. Time has been allotted Note on Williamsburg Conference ...... 11 within the conference schedule for participants to enjoy Colonial Williamsburg. This conference offers a special Membership Dues ...... 11 opportunity for meaningful interaction between the cre­ Gentle Reminder ...... 11 ative practitioner and th e technical and scientifi c commu­ Calendar ...... 11 nity. Registrat ions received after December 21st will be Special Sale! Color & Light- Billmeyer & Hammond 14 accepted on a space available basis. Registration forms jobs Wanted ...... 15 and information may be obtained by contacting Ms. Cynthia Sturke, Administrative Assistant, at Tel: 703-318- Sustaining M embers, ISCC Office ...... Back Page 0263, fax: 703-318-0514 or email: [email protected]. More information concerning the conference program and speakers are available on the ISCC World Wide Web site at: http://www.iscc.org. ~cason's

Christmas and a Happy tr:\ne of the poster papers at the ISCC Williamsburg \CJ Conference , February 22-24, 1998, will be adem­ onstration of the computer application Color Cleaver: and Healthy New Year! Slicing and Dicing the World ofColor. This beta version of Gultekin Celikiz-I SCC News Editor the software is being shown by joy Luke, Linda Taylor and Sylvia Weiss in the hope that ISCC members w ill try it and

(Continued~) ISCC NEWS NO. 371 2 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1998 have suggestions for improving its use­ experimental data collected by the three interest groups, the education fulness before the final version is com­ committee. Carl E. Foss suggested the committee and any active project com­ pleted. :;ystem's form, which is importantto its mittees. In addition, there will be an There are many computer usefulness. Instead of being based on ISCC/OSA Joint Symposium on color applications that allow the user to create polar coordinates like the Munsell differences and color discrimination. individual colors and a number that system, or on a cubic grid as CIELAB is, We are expeding significant interna­ contain libraries of color palettes. Color he proposed that colors be placed at tional contributions to this symposium Cleaver differs by enabling anyone thenodesofcuboctahedral units. These from researchers in , vision looking for colors to use in a specific units are repeated to fill the achievable science, and industry. A draft of the project, or looking for fresh color ideas, of colors. This places each color planned meeting schedule along with a to search through for the equi-distant from seven other colors, a description of the joint symposium is rightgroupof colors. The user indicates stringent test of uniformity, and fills given below. a pair of colors that must be used in a space with the densest possible array of project, or ones the user would like to colors. Considered from a different A call for papers for the joint symposium include in a color palette, and Color viewpoint, this arrangement of points will be included with the OSA Annual Cleaver returns between 40 and 200 in space is the face centered cubic Meeting call for papers. Calls for the unique groups of colors. Each of these version of closest packing. interest group and poster sessions wi II groups contains the original pair of The Uniform Color Scales were be circulated by the various group chairs colors and a different set of interrelated completed andtheOSAmadeavailable through ISCC News. Please keep }'Qur colors. This is accomplished by slicing a notebook of colored samples eyes open for these calls and plan on two-dimensional color planes at various representing the system in 1976, twenty­ participating in the meeting. angles within a three-dimensional color nine years after the project began. These solid developed by OSA-UCS color samples have been Preliminary Meeting Schedule of America. Since the planes contain used in numerous visual studies since transitional colors the viewer senses an then, but this computer application is Thursday, Oct. 1 underlying unity among the colors, the first way for people in other fields to 8:00-4:00 ISCC Board of Directors making the palettes harmonious. take advantage ofthis uniquely beautiful Meeting In 1947, shortly after the end of color space. World War II, a committee was Joy Turner Luke Friday, Oct. 2 established by the Optical Society of Phone: (540) 987-8386 9:00-11 :30 Education Committee America (OSA) to work on a new color Fax: 540-987-3353 11 :30-1 :00 ISCC Member-Bodies order system. The goal was to develop Lunch a three dimensional in which 1:00-2:00 Project Committee #51; all color samples would be placed at 1998 ISCC ANNUAL Guide to Material Standards perceptually equal color differences 2:00-4:30 Interest Group Ill; Art, from one another in all directions. For MEETING Design & Psychology this reason the color system is termed 4:30-5:00 Newcomers Meeting the Uniform Color Scales. Most of the WITH 5:00-7:00 Wine & Cheese Reception individuals who served on the OSA I Contributed Posters Session committee were also major figures in OPTICAL the ISCC. Deane B. Judd, Dorothy THE Saturday, Oct. 3 Nickerson, Kasson S. Gibson and SOCIETY OF 9:00-11 :30 Interest Group II; Industrial Sidney M. Newhall had been Applications of Color responsible in 1943 for the renotation AMERICA 11 :30-1 :00 Awards Luncheon I of the Munsell color system and their Business Meeting work with that system convinced them 1 :00- 2:00 Individual Members Group that there was a need for a color order Meeting system in which perceptually uniform ltlJ1 ark your calendar and plan to 2:00-4:30 Interest Group I; spacing was the primary criteria. lf Ill participate in the 67th Inter-So­ Fundamental & Applied Color Dr .. judd served as chairman of the ciety Color Council Annual Meeting Research OSA committee until his final illness which will be held in conjundion with 6:00- ?? "Crab Bake" Outing when David MacAdam became the Optical Society of America Annual chairman and completed the Meeting on October 1-4, 1998 at the Sunday, Oct. 4 committee's work. C. D. Reilly, who Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel in Balti­ 9:00-5:30 ISCCIOSA joint Symposium was largely responsible for the CIELAB more. As usual the meeting will in­ "Color Discrimination and Color formulas, fitted formulas to the clude sessions organized by each of the Differences: Perception and (Continued~) ISCC NEWS NO. 371 3 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1998

Prediction" as a substrate for color-management ments that specified The perception of color differences systems. CIE Division I will hold a and color rendering index were suffi- · and color discrimination judgments, meeting in Baltimore, MD just prior to cient to ensure appropriate lighting for along with their prediction by the Inter-Society Color Council Annual the detection of cyanosis. However, mathematical formulas, are important Meeting, and we anticipate that some with the replacement of many tradition both in industrial applications and basic of the participants will share their fluorescent lamps with triphosphortech­ color science. This symposium aims to research and views with us at the Interest nology, there is a need for reevaluation bring together researchers from both Group I session. oftheacceptancecriteria. In "A Method domains to share their problems and for Evaluating the Acceptability of Light solutions and create Ii nkages to advance Interest Group I is now soliciting Sources for Clinical Visual Evaluation the field. contributed papers on any aspect of of Cyanosis," Stephen Dain, John W. basic and applied research in the field Hood, Steward Montano, and Con Arali Please mark your calendars, plan to of color appearance and color describe a method of evaluation with a attend, and watch for upcoming calls difference. Please submit by June 1, single value criterion for acceptance of for participation, program details, 1998 a title and an abstract of no more lighting. registration information, etc. than 200 words to either the Chair or In "Colour Matching for Ink-Jet Prints Vice-Chair: on Paper" C. de M. Bezerra, Mark D. Fairchild C.J.Hawkyard, H.M.Kulube, and 1998 ISCC Annual Meeting Chair Dr. Michael H. Brill S. Reyner describe a study that used Sarnoff Corporation partitive color mixing theory to predict CN 5300 colors produced by an ink-jet printer, Princeton, NJ 08543-5300 and also the reverse process, whereby ISCC 1998 ANNUAL USA the area of each color was calculated Tel: 609-734-3037 for a given target color, which was MEETING Fax: 609-734-2662 specified by its tristimulus values. Ink­ email: mbrill®sarnoff.com jet printers produce colored areas by OCTOBER 2-4 spraying an array oftiny dots of a select Dr. Helen H. Epps number of colored inks. While most INTEREST GROUP I University of Georgia printers use 3 colors, possibly with the 300 Dawson Hall addition of black, there has been recent Basic and Applied Color Athens, GA 30602 interest in increasing the color gamut Research USA by increasing the number of ink colors CALL FOR PAPERS Tel: 706-542-4913 to seven or eight. Ge-nerally the color Fax: 706-542-4862 of a patch results from the additive ,sec Interest Group I, Basic and Ap­ email: [email protected] mixture of colored dots. However, the ,D pi ied Color Research, serves to bring situation is further complicated because together researchers in the fields of color of overlap of the dots also produces science, color measurement, color tech­ COLOR RESEARCH colors by subtractive mixing. Two, nology, vision, education and psychol­ three and eight color mixtures, as well ogy, todiscusstopicsofmutual interest. AND APPLICATION as the over I ap considerations are For the Annual Meeting to be held in included in this study. Baltimore, MD, October 2-4, 1998, the IN THIS ISSUE, February 1998 A tropic of historical concern in topic of discussion is " color science is assessing the legitimacy and Color Appearance". The session ~here is probably no circumstance of summarizing color-difference d~ta will comprise contributed papers (each ~where the visual evaluation of using a two-dimensional uniform approximately 20-30 minutes in length). color is more critical than in certain chromaticity space. Although the CIE medical applications. Our first article 1960 space is such a summary, the CIE Color appearance models are in this issue deals with one such situa­ 1976 spaces involve three dimensions particularly timely now, because of the tion. The rapid onset ofcyanosis, a blue and also implicit chromatic-adaptation need for a universal color-management coloration of the skin and mucous mem­ laws. However, there is still adesire..for standard on the Internet and in digital branes usually associated with a de­ a two-dimensional metric [see P.Aiessi's television. The CIE has a very active crease amount of oxygen in the blood, "CIE guidelines for coordinated technical committee dealing with this may be a medical emergency. The research evaluation of colour topic. A CIE model called CIECAM97s accurate assessment of a patient's color appearance models for reflection print is a candidate for a universal color­ can lead to the early detection of cy­ and self-luminous displays image appearance space to be recommended anosis. In the past, illuminant require- comparisons" in volume 19 of this (Continued~) ISCC NEWS NO. 371 4 jANUARY/FEBRUARY 1998 journal, pages 48-58 (1994)] . As if in a linear model for representing of Colour by Hunt, Fifteenth Biennial response to this perceived need, reflectances from a group of 5574 Workshop on Videography and Color Claudio Oleari presents an article samples of acrylic paint on paper. Photography in Resource Assessment entitled "Uniform-scale chromaticity Havi ng the basis functions allowed the ed. by Paul W . Mausel, and Indirect diagrams: opponent-chromatic reflectance curves of objects to be Perception by Rock. responses as logarithms of cone­ recovered from the effects of the Ellen C. Carter activation ratios." This article returns illumination falling on the object. President, ISCC to the MacAdam-el lipse data that The final article in this issue follows supported the 1960 space, and shows a topic from last year, the preservation near uniformity oftl}e color-difference of monumental buildings. The earlier CA LL FOR POSTERS thresholds in a 2D space w hose article examined the preservation of coordinates are the logarithms of two granite buildings, and the current article ?lr'he Gemological Institute of cone-activation ratios. He finds that is concerned with the preservation of ~Ame rica will host the 19991nter­ other published data also support the sandstone buildings. In "Assessment of national Gemological Symposium in primacy of these coordinates, and Chromatic Changes Due to Artificial San Diego, CA on june 21 -24. More suggests that chromatic adaptation of Aging and/or Conservation Treatments than 2000 people are expected to at­ the cone-activation stage may be of Sandstones," the authors,). Garcia­ tend this pivotal event. The symposium enough to render the model predictive Talegon, M.A. Vicente, S. Vicente­ program- with the theme "Meeting the of color-difference thresholds under Tavera, and E. Malina-Ballesteros report Millennium" - will feature technical different states of chromatic adaptation. on the chromatic changes observed sessions and pane l discussions on a In the field of machine vision when weathering sandstone. variety of topics of vital interest to all acquiring lighting information from the The Color Forum question this month members of the gem and jewelry indus­ various re flections from objects is is how many colors can people try. In addition, there will be an open essential to the analysis of the scene distinguish? This age-old question has Poster Session featuring original pre­ leading to object recognition, etc. been brought tom i nd recent! y by claims sentations on such topics as new gem When we look at objects, we form in the computer display field. It has materia Is, synthetic gem materia Is, treat­ many judgments subconsciously been suggested that an advanced ments, gem identification and grading including recognition of the object, its display system can produce 16.7 million instrumentation and techniques, gem color, the type of material that it is different colors (2 8 x 28 x 28 = localities, gem exploration, jewelry made out of (i.e., metal, plastic, stone, 16,777,216), but can we perceive the manufacturing, and jewelry design. etc.). Th ese judgments are linked to difference between each of them? Contributions are being solicited for our experimental knowledge of how Pointer and Attridge discuss th is this Poster Session. To be considered light interacts with the object and our question in "The Number of Discernible for this important event (space is subconscious analysis of the lighting Colours." limited), please submit a preliminary conditions. In general, the specular In our Communications and abstract (no more than 250 words) to reflection from a light source does not Comments column this month, we have one of the Poster Session organizers by confuse us when we determine the several letters in regard to recent articles October 1, 1 998. Fo r further shape or color of the object. Th is may and the authors' responses. One pair information on the Poster Session, not be true for machines. While we do concerns the rigorous testing of the Cl E contact Dr. james Shigley at 760-603- not consciously ask the question, "Is Standard Observers by Kuehni and 4019; fax: 760-603-4021 ; emai l: this white area a new and different Thornton responding. Another letter, [email protected] or Ms. Donna Dirlam object, or merely a light source from Stephen Dain, is about traffic at 760-603-4154; fax: 760-603-4256 refl ection? ", a machine does. To answer signals and Q factors for sunglasses. A or email: [email protected]. For this question, it is necessary for the thi rd set includes a comment on a information on the Symposium, contact computer to gain information about potential misunderstanding regarding Carol Moffatt at 7 60-603-44 06 or emai I: the light sources illuminating the the Allen Algorithm by Eugene Allen, cmoff objects. This informati on must come and a response by Robert Marcus and from the ana lysis of the ra diant energy Percy Pierce. Let me close by saying reflected from the objects. Thus it is this issue contains an unusual number vital to know the expected reflectances of book reviews, six of them. They from objects. In " Li near Bases for report on the books:, Color: an Spectral Reflectance Functions of Introduction to Practice and Principles Acrylic Paints," Antonio Garcia-Beltran, by Kuehni (two reviews), Color juan L. Nieves, Javier Hernandes­ Technology for Electronic Imaging Andres, and Javier Romero developed Devices by H. Kang, The Reproduction ISCC NEWS NO. 371 5 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1998 FIFTH COLOR Thus began the Color Vision and color categories and tolerance ellipses Color Appearance session, chaired by to perform color appearance and gamut IMAGING Ronnier Luo (U. Derby). Graham mapping transformations. Finlayson (U. Derby) and Paul Hubel The Color Printing session chaired (Hewlett-Packard) presented a method by R. Buckley (Xerox Corp.) began with CONFERENCE for white balance correction which an invited paper by Gary Field (Cal. correlates the gamut of colors in the Poly.) Field reminded the audience BIGGER THAN EVER image with reference samples under that there is more to obtaining color various illuminants. The illuminant approval in the graphic arts industry t"iir'he Fifth Color Imaging Confer­ which gives the best correlation is than &E's. Other factors include ~ence was held in Scottsdale, AZ chosen as the probable illuminant of reproduction objectives, gar:nut from November 18 to 20, 1997. The the scene, and the image can then be considerations, and differences in color conference is co-sponsored by the So­ corrected for this illuminant. vision. He was followed by three papers ciety for Imaging Science and Technol­ Cathleen Daniels (Eastman on printer modeling, specifically as a ogy (IS& T) and the Society for Informa­ Co.) conducted experiments which way of characterizing color output. tion Display (SID). The conference showed that the effect of surround on J.P.Van deCapelle (Barco Graphics) continues to grow, with 335 partici­ the illuminance contrast in pictorial described a substrate-independent pants this year. This is a single track 3- images is less than what was previously technique for printer modeling by day conference plus one day for tutori­ found. S.lee Guth (Indiana U) proposed making spectral measurements of als, with sessions this year on: Color that our contrast sensitivity to color single-colorant step wedges on different Vision & Appearance; Gamut Mapping variations (yellow/blue and red/green) backgrounds, and estimating various & Display; Color Printing; Color Trans­ may have the same band-pass parameters that are independent of the forms & Algorithms; Digital Photogra­ characteristics that the luminance background. A simple model is then phy; Color Graphics & Simulation; Color contr'ast sensitivity function (CSF) used to predictthe color of arbitrary ink Management and Color Standards & exhibits. The luminance CSF becomes mixtures. Patrick Emmel (Ecole Measurements. There was also a poster a low-pass function for low lightness Polytechnique Federale de lausanne) session, an evening panel on Color values, and most chromatic CSF discussed an extension to Beer's law Integrity vs. Color Fidelity on the experiments are done at low chroma that allows for the characterization of Internet, and a talk by Rich Gold of values. Therefore when the threshold fluorescent inks. Jonathan Arney Xerox PARC on Documents and Genres. experiment is performed at high (Rochester lnst. Tech.) showed good The proceedings are avai Iable as chromatic stimulation levels, perhaps results with a CMY halftone model that hardcopy and on a CD-ROM. the CSF becomes band-pass. is an extension of the Neugebauer This year's conference began with a An invited talk by Maureen Stone model. keynote address from Dr. Robert Hunt, begantheGamutMappingand Display Mike Brill (Sarnoff Corp.) described his third keynote address at this annual session. Stone discussed the work of his efforts to add color and time conference. Dr. Hunt derived how the VRML Color Fidelity Working components to the Lubin vision model. many bits per color are needed in Group. VRMl, or Virtual Reality He described a correlation of 0.9 today'sdigital systems, in a presentation Modeling language, is used for 30 between the model's JNDs and entitled, "Bits, Bytes, and Square Meals graphics on the world wide web. One subjective ratings across several visual in Digital Imaging." By considering the issuethegroupstruggleswith is gamma. tasks. The model has been proposed as limited reproduction gamut of these Their experiments showed that a a draft standard in the ITU and IEEE, systems, visual sensitivity to luminance gamma of 2.2 was preferred over 1.3, and he expects an executable version versus chrominance, the modulation and they are considering using that as of the model to be available on the web transfer function in the eye, and a their standard. Two papers discussed soon. Raja Balasubramanian (Xerox visually linear quantization of available gamut mapping. Jan Morovic and M. Corp.) discussed a computationally levels, the audience was shown that Ronnier Luo (U. Derby) developed efficient method of color correction about 1 bit/pixel is sufficient. Further several gamut-mapping algorithms which utilizes a PEG-encoded image. compression is available for motion which they compared to several In the Digital Photography session, pictures, necessitating only 0.3 bits/ standard techniques. They compared Ki miyoshi Miyata and other researchers pixel. printed reproductions to originals at Chiba University found that Lindsay MacDonald, Conference displayed on a CRT at 050 and found correlation between an objective error committee CO-chairman, presented Or. that their new techniques out­ measure and subjective ratings of Hunt with an award for recognition of performed more tradition gamut degraded images increased when the outstanding contribution to the field of mapping methods. Hideto Motomura error was computed using the blocks in color science and to the Color Imaging (Matsushita Research Institute) used the image most often gazed at by Conference. (Continued~) JSCC NEWS NO. 371 6 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1998 subjects. Xuemei Zhang (Stanford U) on the ICC profile construction process, a report on CIE Standards, after which described the correlation between discussing the trade-off between USNC and CNC held separate business detection probabi I ities and the providing control for the expert and meetings. distortion maps laboriously constructed ease-of-use for the novice. A set of On Saturday, November 1, The by paid subjects who compared original features was identified for profile Tec~nical Program titled New and halftone images. The detection construction. Three levels of user Developments in Lighting included five probabilities were computed using expertise were identified, along with papers for the morning session, as RGB, CIELAB and sCIELAB and sCIELAB the feature subsets available at each follows: 94; sCIELAB made the most consistent level. Phil Green (London College of predictions, and was improved through Printing) compared the quality of ICC Jennifer Vetch, NRC Canada, the use of CIE94. profiles created by several vendors. Research at NRC on Lighting Quality The Color Imaging Conference is Outputs were significantly different , and its Effects on Performance and increasing its focus on the a~curate use with Color Synergy profiles generally Satisfaction. of color in computer graphics. In a preferred for their high chroma Luke Cui, Macbeth Co., Error session on Color Graphics and Color renditions. Sensitivity in Measuring Chromaticity. Simulation, chaired by Donald Karen Braun Justin Rennilson, ARTI, Revision of Greenburg (Cornell U), several Robert Buckley CIE Publication 54 on Retroreflection. presentations looked at the relationship Raja Balasubramanian John Bullough, Lighting Research between knowledge of the illumination Xerox Corporation Center, Rennselaer Polytechnic and the quality of the graphics Institute, Mesopic Photometry: simulation. Issues and implications. The Color Management session THE UNITED STATES William Thornton, Prime Color Inc., concluded with a thorough discussion The One Remaining Step to Reach by the president of the International NATIONAL Excellent Lamplight. Color Consortium (ICC), Todd Newman. Newman (Silicon Graphics, COMMITIEEOF The Afternoon session included the Inc.) discussed some of the problems following five papers. which continue to plague the color THE Ivan Pasini, PW&GS, Canada, management world. The use of private Integrated Personnel Environmental tags by color management modules, INTERNATIONAL Controls ambiguity in the specification, Clay Belcher, University of Kansas, particularly concerning white point, COMMISSION ON Electronic Lighting Textbook definition of rendering intents, gamut David Crawford, International Dark­ stretching, and appearance modeling ILLUMINATION Sky Association, Astronomy and Light are all areas that need further definition Pollution: Where Have the Stars Gone? in order to achieve consistent and high­ (USNC/CIE) Steve Martel, Remote Source quality color management. Twenty­ Lighting, Remote Illumination Systems three posters were presented in a t7fr'he USNC/CIE held its Annual Gary Allen, GE Lighting, Remote separate-track poster session. Gustav ~Meeting Friday, Oct. 30 through Illumination Systems Braun (RIT) won this year's "Cactus Sunday, November 2 at the Holiday Inn Award" for the best poster presentation. NE in Wickliffe, Ohio, northeast of This reporter would like to have He presented a method for visualizing Cleveland. The meeting was held jointly time to make brief reports on each gamut surfaces by plotting maximum with the Canadian National Commit­ presentation, but he will include a brief c• as a function of L• and hue. This tee. report on just one, namely that of Bill results in a 2-0 "mountain range" Friday morning was devoted to US Thornton because of its profound surface, with potential use for meetings of the Technical Council and implications. Thornton reminded the operations such as efficiently of the Executive Committee. At the conference that the Iu m i nous efficiency determining out-of-gamut pixels, latter meeting, the nominations of the curve was disqualified by MacAdam in smoothing of noisy gamut surface data, two new Members for Life was 1950 when he showed that perceived and gamut mapping. In a related poster, approved, namely William Thornton brightness is strongly non-additive. Judd Patrick Herzog (Aachen U. of Tech.) and James Jewell. Thornton is well reported in 1955 that the CIE had come used a similar gamut representation to known to many ISCC members. Jewel to regard the luminous efficiency perform printer calibration on "nested is a former President of the Illuminating function, as a matter of convenience shells" of the printer gamut. Engineering Society of North America and uti I ity rather than because Parker Plaisted (Torrey Pines) and (I ESNA). The afternoon was devoted to I umi nance so evaluated correlates with Robert Chung (RIT) presented a paper Activity Report of CIE Divisions and to (Continued~) ISCC NEWS NO. 371 7 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1998

what the eye sees. Yet trichromacy of in the News. vision demands three independent • Video will be produced next year CORM 98 visual-system spectral sensitivities. demonstrating the proper use of color Thornton cited 14 sets of visual data, evaluation procedures. COUNCIL FOR including both CIE observers and • Lighting Communications sub­ MacAdam's 1967 landmark paper committee plans to meet with retailers OPTICAL "Color Science and Color and producers of apparel, textiles, and Photography," which by consensus dyes to recommend standard RADIATION indicate narrow peak sensitivities at procedures for viewing color. three nanometer wavelength regions, Representatives of this subcommittee MEASUREMENTS namely 446±7, 533±5, and 61 0±6. will participate in meetings regarding Recognition of this fact together with color and lighting. Effects of color ~ORM announces annual corifer­ the concomitant minima in the blue­ rendition from sources having similar "-"ence and business meeting with green and yellow regions of the CRI and CCT (but different SPD) were joint CIE Division 2 meeting. The CIE spectrum, recommends lamplight with demonstrated visually for the Division II meeting will be Monday and minimized power in these regions. The subcommittee. Tuesday, May 18th and 19th, and the gain is higher brightness per watt of • Letter Ballots: Corm conference will follow on May lighting in an illuminated space as well Proposed method for general 20th and 21st, 1998 in Boulder Colo­ as more preferred coloration of well procedure for the determination of rado at NIST Optoelectronics Division. known object colors. He demonstrated relative dye strength by CORM '98 events include the the latter point by illuminating colored spectrophotometric transmittance traditional Franc Grum Memorial fruit and vegetables with a conventional measurement. Lecture and banquet, the annual cool-white fluorescent lamp and with a Revision of the Test Method 173, business meeting, sub-committee tri-band lamp. CMC: Calculation for Small Color meetings, and of course, the main Differences for letter ballot before the conference. The conference will Saturday evening 'all attendees and next meeting. include a technical session to address accompanying persons were Evaluation Procedure 6: progress with International Radiometry transported by bus to Nela Park to tour Instrumental Color Measurement and Photometry standards, and the General Electric lighting Institute requiring editorial revision. appropriate to N 1ST Boulder expertise, followed by a social hour and a gourmet Evaluation Procedure 8: 9-Step there wi II be a double session dedicated dinner as guests of the Institute. Chromatic Transference Scale has to the topic of Optoelearonics . been resolved, and filed with AA TCC. Report submitted by Harry K. • Color Technology Workshop was A special social event is planned for Hammond Ill held October 28-29, and continues to Sunday, May 17th, and an inter­ attract participants as a successful meeting social hour will be held on training course for color technicians. Tuesday evening. A tour of some NIST • Next meeting of the Committee Optoelectronics facilities will be on AMERICAN will be February 24-26, 1998, in die 21st. Charlotte, NC. ASSOCIATION OF Ann laidlaw PreliminaryCORM98Scheduleand TEXTILE CHEMISTS Call for Participation Sunday May 1 7th: A special social AND COLORISTS outing is planned which will include a tour of the magnificent natural (AATCC) surroundings. More details can be expected in the Spring 98 ORN and on Cil ATCC Research Committe on Color our website, on-line about December ..z:lMeasurement Test Method (RA36) 1st. met November 20, 1997 in Research Triangle Park. The committee reviewed Monday May 18th: CIE Division 11- the following items: Technical Committee Meetings: Three • Color Technology in the Textile conference rooms at NIST will be Industry, 2"d edition is recently avai Iable for these committee meetings. published and available for sale by AATCC. More on this book elsewhere (Continued~) ISCC NEWS NO. 371 8 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1998

Tuesday May 19th: CIE Division 11- available at the Regal Harvest House Technology Conference. The Main Meeting: Room 1107 at NIST for May 16th through May 23 rd, located Conference, whichdrew495 registrants will be available for this meeting. The at 1345 28th Street, Boulder CO 80302- to its four two-day and ten one-day Division II main meeting typically 6899. For more details and updates, programs, featured sold-out attendance includes: reports from the Associate visit our new website (www.corm.org) attwoofitsofferings: "Executive Forum Diredors and the technical committees available after December 1st, 1997. 1: Strategically Effedive New Produd under the jurisdiction, the Editor's Development: An Enterprise-Wide report, reports on activities regarding Conference Coordinators: Approach from Concept Through CIE standards, discussion on new (CORM Directors) Commercialization" and "Surfadant technical committees and/or reporters, William L. Weber Chemistry." and administrative matters. do GretagMacbeth Technical presentations were also An inter-meeting social hour will be 617 little Britain Rd. an important part of the FSCT Annual held on Tuesday evening at the Regal New Windsor, NY 12553 Meeting. From the Keynote Address Harvest House. 914-565-7660 x538 given by one of the nation's leading wi [email protected] science and technology forecasters Wednesday May 20th, AM: CORM Daniel Burrus to the Mattiello Memorial AM Conference Session-International Norbert L. johnson ledure presented by F.louis Floyd, the Radiometry and Photometry Standards do 3M Company Annual Meeting offered attendees many This session is a forum for national 3M Center 235-3B-55 opportunities to learn of the latest laboratories involved in radiometry and St. Paul, MN 55144-1000 innovations in the world of coatings photometry, to present new 612-733-5939 technology. measurement techniques or [email protected] instruments, new reference materials, James A. McCormick, Managing or advances in measurement and Director of Enhansco, Ponte Vedra calibration services. The conference FEDERATION OF Beach, Fl, was the recipient of the sessions are being held in the NIST Federation's highest honor, the George auditorium. SOCIETIES FOR Baugh Heckel Award, for 1997. Mr. McCormick, a Past-President of Wednesday, PM: CORM PM COATINGS FSCT, received the award during the Conference Session-Optoelectronics Opening Session of the Federation's (Pan 7) TECHNOLOGY Annual Meeting, in Atlanta, on This is the beginning of a double November 3. session where techn i ca I papers w iII be (FSCT) presented regarding recent advances The FSCT is proud to announce the in topics that may include: laser additional winners of awards presented measurement, Fiber-optic metrology, ~ elebrating its 75th Anniversary, the at its 75th Annual Meeting: Integrated Optics, Optical Emitters & ~Federation convened in Atlanta, Detectors, and Optoelectronic GA, on November 3-5, 1997. Offered DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Components. Held in the NIST in conjundion with the 75th Annual AWARD-M. Jay Austin, of Halox auditorium. Meeting was the International Coatings Pigments, Hammond, IN. Expo (ICE) and Technology Conference. The Franc Grum Memorial lecture The FSCT -sponsored event attracted ARMIN J. BRUNING AWARD­ and banguet will be Wednesday 8,233 attendees to Atlanta's Georgia Calvin McCamy, retired from Macbeth, evening at the Regal Harvest House. World Congress Center. Division of Kollmorgen, New The record-setting number of Windsor, NY Thursday May 21st, AM: CORM supplier companies-332-filled AM Conference Session-Opto­ 96,800 square feet of exhibit space ROON FOUNDATION AWARD­ electronics (Pan 2) with state-of-the-art raw materials, "Oxidative Crosslinkingof Alkyd Resins The technical session will continue equipment, and services for the coatings Studied with Mass Spectrometry and from the previous afternoon. industry. Ofthese, 49 companies were NMR Using Model Compounds"­ first time exhibitors. The previous W.J.Muizebelt, J.J.Donkerbroek, Thursday, PM: CORM PM record was set in 1996 when 320 M.W.F.Nielen, j.B.Hussem, M.E.F. sessions-Committee and Sub­ supplier companies were represented Biemond, R.P.Kiaasen, K.H.Zabel, of committee Meetings, Tour in Chicago, ll. Akzo Nobel Returning for its second year was the A block of discounted rooms wi II be popular International Coatings (Continued~) ISCC NEWS NO. 371 9 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1998

ALFRED L.HENDRY AWARD-Kip Orleans, LA. For exhibiting information, spectral analyses, additive functions of Sharp, University of Southern contact Steve Kettlekamp at 314-994- reflectance (Kubelka-Munk) and Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS. 9640. transmittance (Beer-Lambert), semi­ quantitative production batch SOCIETY SPEAKERS AWARD-First adjustments, principles of computer Prize-Amir Niromand (Rhone­ colorant formulation, methods to get Poulenc,lnc.) New York Society. the most out of your system, and a Second Prize-Ben Caiazzo (DCA RIT'S MUNSELL problem solving session. This is a great Coatings) Cleveland Section. opportunity to benefit from Mr. COLOR SCIENCE Stanziola's extensive industrial SOCIETY SECRETARIES AWARD-­ experience. First Prize-Joseph C. Reilly, JCR LABORATORY These courses are highly beneficial Enterprise, Secretary of the Los Angeles 1998 SUMMER INDUSTRIAL to persons involved in the coloration of Society. SHORT COURSE natural and synthetic materials such as Second Prize-Chris Lockhart, ANNOUNCEMENT paints, textiles, and plastics. Reynolds Metal Co. Secretary of Louisville Society.

(*member of ISCC; ®living in Great accessible, user-friendly format­ Britain; #living in Germany; * providing interior designers, architects, RICHARDS. deceased) and students with the straightforward The book is on sale from AATCC for help they need to create color settings HUNTER COLOR $45 for AATCC members and $70 for that satisfy the eye, the mind and the nonmembers. AATCC, P. 0. Box sprit. INSTITUTE'S FIRST 12215, One Davis Drive, Research Mary C. Miller taught for 20 years at Triangle Park, NC 27709-2215 the University of North Carolina at SEMINAR. Greensboro where she established and chaired the five-year professional ?lr'he Richard S. Hunter Color lnsti­ . interior design program. She is an ~ute (RSHCI), in partnership with Calvin C. McCamy has received the active member of the Interior Design the National Coil Coaters Association Armin J. Bruning Award of the Educators Council. (NCCA) provided the first Color and Federation of Societies for Coatings Appearance Seminar on November 20, Technology 1997 for coil coaters and their vendors. A full house of 50 attendees gathered at William Thornton has recently been My apologies to Jean Bourges. When the O'Hare Westin in Rosemont, IL to made a lifetime member of the United her book, "Color Bytes" was mentioned hear Glen Anderson, Executive Direc­ States National Committee of the in the last issue of ISCC News, tor of NCCA and jane fiersey, Execu­ International Commission on additional details were inadvertently tive DirectorofRSHCI, initiate the semi­ Illumination (USNC/CIE). I would like omitted. "Color Bytes" is published by nar and thank the attendees for making to report at this time Fred W. Billmeyer, Chromatics Press, Inc. 110-64 Queens the seminar vision a reality. Jr. and Harry Hammond Ill have been Blvd,. Suite #268, Forest Hills, NY Gordon Leggett, a color and life members for some time. 11375. The individual list price is appearance staff specialist with the $34.95, ISCC members less 1 0°/o Institute, presented the informative, discount-add postage and NY resident interactive educational program. sales tax. Corporate discounts are Anderson praised the quality of the Mary C. Miller has just published a available-for more information Seminar, color course notes and the book, Color for Interior Architecture. It contact Robert Silver; accompanying handouts and said is published by John Wiley & Sons tel: 718-793-1464 attendees received information to help (ISBN 0-471-12736-1). The book fax: 718-793-2857. manage their co16r management examines the major considerations programs from prepaint to postpaint. involved in color choice for interior Hersey commented, "There was a spaces. This unique reference enables MEMBERSHIP DUES broad spectrum of attendees from color readers to gain a fundamental technicians to quality managers to vice understanding and awareness of coior presidents. The attendees represented that can be applied to virtually any ?lr'he ISCC Membership Dues ln­ a wide variety of coi I coating companies design situation. The book brings ~voices have been mailed for 1998. who came from as far away as Mexico together theory and practice in an In an effort to keep our database cur­ and Canada. rent, please fill out any changes or The NCCA is an industry trade additions to your contact information organization representing the coil NOTE ON FIRST on the invoice. If you did not receive coating industry. (Coil coating is a one, please let the office know (Tel: continuous and highly automated WILLIAMSBURG 703-318-0263). Remember, in order to process for coating metal before continue receiving the ISCC News and fabrication. Coil coated products can CONFERENCE Directory update in 1998, it is hoped be found in a variety of markets that you will return your invoice before including appliance, automotive, the next ISCC News goes to press. An building products, containers and The First Williamsburg added benefit to continuing your mem­ packaging, furniture, transportation and Conference was organized and run bership is, of course, the greatly re­ more.) The NCCA provides an by Max Saltzman in 1 966 on duced subscription rate to the Color atmosphere of education and Instrumental Approaches to Colorant Research and Application Journal, avail­ networking to help promote the coil Formulation. able upon your paid membership dues. coating industry. If you have any questions, please con­ The RSHCI, is named in memory of Ellen Carter tact Ms. Cynthia Sturke at the ISCC RichardS. Hunter. The three member President office. Cynthia Sturke Board of Advisors of the Institute was . (Continued~) ISCC NEWS NO. 371 12 JANUAR Y/FEBR UARY 1998 announced at the NCCA/RSHCI semi nar. All well known in COLOUR and IMAGING WEEK at DERBY, March 23-27, the color community, Dr. Fred W. Billmeyer, Jr. brings a University of Derby, United Kingdom, info : Linda Marshall; scientific and technica l background to the Board, while tel: +44(0)11 5-9376070; email:[email protected] William V. Longley and Ra lph Stanziola provide industrial experiences and strong applications orientation. The NCCA COLOR M AR KETING GROUP (CMG), Spring International partneri ng w ith the RSHCI provides the knowledge of how to Conf., Apr. 19-21, The Broadmoor, Colorado Spring, CO . provide consistent color and appearance for coil coated Info: 5904 Richmond Hwy., Suite 408, Alexandria, VA tel: products is essentia l in today's competitive marketplace. 703-329-8500, fax: 703-329 -0155; email: colorcmg®erols.com To find out more about NCCA or RSHCI, visit our web site at: www.coilcoaters.org and www.color-edu.com. TAGA 98, 50TH AN N IVERSARY CELEBRATION, Apr. 26- 29, Technical Association of the Graphic Arts, Marriott j ane Hersey Lincol nshire Resort, Chicago, IL, info: Karen l awrence, tel: RichardS. Hunter Color Institute 716-475-7470 703-834-22 72 CO RM 98,May 17-21, Council for Optica l Radiation Measurements, Annual Conference and Business Meeting with joint CIE Division 11 , at NIST Optoeledronics Division, G ENTLE REMINDER! Boulder CO info: N.l johnson, tel : 612-7 33-5939, email: [email protected]. All appropriate information submitted to this NEWS pu blication is the full and complete responsibility of the CIE Division II, May 18-19, Commission international de sender. I'Ecla irage, Boulder, CO, see CORM 98 meeting, Info: CIE This publication and the ISCC assumes no responsibility email: [email protected] for information changes and inaccuracies. Thanks, SID 98, Society for Information Display, May 17-22, The Ed itor Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA info: Lauren Ki nsey, SID, 1526 Brookhollow Drive, Sui te 82, Santa Ana, c A L E N ~ D A R CA 92705, tel: 714-545-1526; fax: 714-545-1547; Please send information on Member Body and other email: socforinfodisplay®mcimail.com organizatio.n meetings involving color and appearance functions ~ith dates, places, and information source to: . ASTM, COMMITTEE D-1, Paint, and Re lated Coatings, Materials and Applications, Omni Inner Harbor, Ba lti more, Cynthia Sturke MD, Info: Scott Orthey, tel 610-832-9717; ISCC Office Manager . tel:703-318-0263 fax: 610-832-9666 11491 Sunset Hills Rd. · fax: 703-318-0514 Reston, VA 20190 einail: [email protected] · :. ASTM, Committee E- 12 ON APPEARANCE, june 17-19, Atlanta Hilton, Atlanta, GA, info: Bode Buckley, tel: 610- 832-9740; fax: 610-832-1547.

1998 Argencolor 1998 - The 4th Argentine Congress on Color, August 3-6, School of Fine Arts, Misiones University, ASTM COMMITTEE D-1, jan.11-14, Paint, and Related M isiones, Argentina, info: Prof. M irta Rossetti, Coatings, Materials and Applications, Sheraton San Diego email: [email protected]. Hotel anet Marina, San Diego, CA info: Scott Orthey, tel: 61 0-832-9717; fax: 610-832-9666. AATCC International Conference and Exhibition, Sept. 22- 25, American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, ASTM COMMITTEE E-12 ON APPEARANCE, jan. 14-16, Marriott, Philadelphia, PA info: Shirley Clifton, Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, San Diego, CA info: tel: 919-549-8141 ; fax: 919-549-8933. Bode Buckley; tel: 61 0-832-97 40; fax: 610-832- 1 54 7.

ISSC W ILLI AMSBURG CONFER ENCE (FE B.22-24), Color and Design: 21st Century Techno logy and Creativity, Inter­ Society Color Council, info: Wade Thompson, tel: 417-882-2553 or ISCC Office (Contin ued~) ISCC NEWS NO. 371 13 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1998

ISCC ANNUAL MEETING, (Oct. 2-4); Inter-Society Color ASTM COMMITTEE D-1, Paint and Related Coatings, Council , Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, MD; info: Materials and Applications ISCC office, tel: 703-318-0263 june 13-16, Omni Rosen Hotel, Orlando, FL ; info: Scott Orthey, tel: 61 0-832-9717; fax: 610-832-9666. OSA ANNUAL MEETING, Oct. 4-8; Optical Society of America; Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD TAPPI, Oct. 17-22, Technical Association of the Pulp and info: OSA, tel: 202-223-0920; fax: 202-416-61 00. Paper Industry ; Conference, Omni Durham Hotel, Durham, NC, info: lisa Archer, tel: 800-332-8686, ext 225 COLOR MARKETING GROUP (CMG), Fall International, Conference, Oct.4-6, Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, OSA ANNUAL MEETING, Optical Society of America, Santa Canada, Info: CMG, 5904 Richmond Hwy, Suite 408, Clara, CA, info: OSA,tel: 202-223-0920, fax: 202-416-6·1 00 Alexandria, VA 22303 AATCC, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBI­ AIC Interim Meeting, Oslo, Norway, Oct.1 0-11, Association TION, Oct. 12-15, American Association of Textile Chemists lnternationale de Ia Colour, Info: Prof. Mitsuo Ikeda, and Colorists, Convention Center, Charlotte, NC, info: Fax: +81-775-61 26 63, email: [email protected]. Shirley Clifton, tel: 919-549-8141; fax: 919-549-8933

TAPPI Conference, Oct 18-23, Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, Milwaukee Hilton, Milwaukee, WI, 2000 Info: lisa Archer; tel: 800-332-8686 ext. 225 ASTM COMMITTEE D-1, Paint, and Related Coatings, IS&T/SID, Sixth Color Imaging Conference, Nov 16-19, Materials and Applications, Jan 23-26, Hyatt Regency, New Society for Imaging Science and Technology/Soc;iety for Orleans, LA info: Scott Orthey; tel: 61 0-832-9717; Information Display, Sunburst Hotel, Scottsdale, AZ, info: fax: 61 0-832-9666. IS& T Conference Manager, 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, tel: 703-642-9090; fax: 703-642-9094; ASTM COMMITTEE E-12 on APPEARANCE, jan 24-26, email: [email protected]; internet: http://www.imaging.org. Hyatt Regency, New Orleans, LA, info: Bode Buckley: tel: 61 0-832-9740; fax: 610-832-1547.

1999 ISCC & CPMA ANNUAL MEETINGS; April, Inter-Society Color Council and Color Pigments Manufacturers Associa­ ASTM COMMITTEE D-1, Paint and Related Coatings, tion, Charlotte, NC., info: Romesh Kumar, Materials and Aplications, jan. 24-27, The Peabody Mem­ tel: 401-823-2161 phis, Memphis, TN, info: Scott Orthey, tel: 61 0-832-9717; fax: 610-832-9666 SID 2000, May 14-19, Society for Information Display. Long Beach CA, lnfo:SID, tel: 714-545-1526: fax: 714-545-1547; ASTM COMMITTEE E-12 ON APPEARANCE, jan 24-26, email: socforinfodisplay@mcimai l.com The Peabody Memphis, Memphis, TN, info: Bode Buckley; Web Site: http://www .sid.org. tel: 610-832-9740; fax: 610-832-1547 AATCC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBI­ ISCC WILLIAMSBURG CONFERENCE, Feb 21-23, 2nd TION, Oct. 15-18, American Association of Textile Chemists Panchromatic Conference, Color in it's Surround; info: Dr. and Colorists, Benton Convention Center, Winston-Salem, Cynthia Brewer, tel: 814-865-5072 or ISCC Office SC, info: Shirley Clifton, tel: 919-549-8141; fax: 919-549-8141 ISCC & TAGA ANNUAL MEETINGS May 5-7,1nter-Society Color Council and May 2-5,Technical Association of the Graphic Arts Tech. Conf. Westin Bayshore Hotel, 2001 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; info Prof. Bob Chung; tel: 716-475-2722 ISCC / AIC MEETING, June 24-29, Inter-Society Color Council and Association lnternationale de Ia Colour, SID 99, May 16-21, Society for Information Display info: Rochester Riverside Convention Center, Rochester, NY; info: SID tel: 714-545-1526, email: [email protected]. Paula J. Alessi, tel: 716-477-7673; fax: 716-722-1116 ISCC NEWS NO. 371 14 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1998 iii SPECIAL SALE!!!

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