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Inter-Society Color Council News 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 <Brrrtings Prof. Wade Thomson COLOR CLEAVER: SLICING Wishing each and AND DICING THE WORLD everyone a very Merry OF COLOR 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 colorimetry, 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, gamut of colors. This places each color planned meeting schedule along with a to search through color space 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 the Optical Society 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 color solid 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 color temperature 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