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The chief topics discussed in this chapter are the nature of light, the nature of color, color and human vision, various color spaces (or models), additive and subtractive colors, complementary colors, and the CIE diagram.
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Salomon (emeritus), D. (2011). Color. In: The Computer Graphics Manual. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-886-7_21
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