Academic year/semester: 2024/25/1

ECTS Credits: 4

Available for: Only for the faculty’s students

Lecture hours: 2
Seminarium:0
Practice: 0
Laboratory: 2
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Course Leader: Ákos Borbély Ph.D.

Faculty: Rejtő Sándor Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Engineering, 1034 Budapest, Doberdó utca 6.

Course Description:
Basic notions of color theory. The physical, physiological and psychological bases connected to colors. The spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, optical radiations. The structure of the human eye, photoreceptors, the structure of the retina. The general context of visual performance, the basics of color vision, the properties of color perception. Color features. The factors influencing color sensing. The methods and tools of color communication: the questions of subjective and objective color characterization; color systems, color sample atlases. The basic principles of color systems. The bases of color measurement, the objective modelling of reduced color vision. The methods and instruments of color stimulus measuring, spectrophotometers. Color contrasts. Color harmony systems. The effects and functions of colors, colorful environment. The basics of color dynamic design, the relationships of people and colors. The special characteristics of color usage. The questions of color reproduction, reproducible color ranges. Colorful techniques.
The most important practical methods of the professional field.

Competences:
- Knowledge of basic ergonomic and psychological methods, rules and standards for the design of industrial products. - Understands and uses the online and printed literature in Hungarian and at least one foreign language. - Knows and uses the language and special terms of his/her field of specialisation in Hungarian and at least one foreign language. - Ability to justify decisions on the designed product, to test them and to support them with technical and standard test methods.

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Mid Term Exam

Compulsory bibliography: 1. https://elearning.uni-obuda.hu/ electronic notes and aids prepared by the instructor 2. Josef Albers: Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition. Yale University Press, United States, 2020. ISBN13 9780300179354

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