Academic year/semester: 2024/25/2

ECTS Credits: 4

Available for: Only for the faculty’s students

Lecture hours: 2
Seminarium:2
Practice: 0
Laboratory: 0
Consultation: 0

Prerequisites: -

Course Leader: Ákos Borbély Phd

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

Course Description:
The purpose of the subject is the physical, physiological and psychophysical basics of colors, color communication. Introducing the basic principles of color systems and the methods and tools of color measurement. Presentation of the application of basic knowledge of color theory and color metrics in the printing industry.

Competences:
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Topics:
1st Week: The role of color in everyday life; definition of color stimuli, percieved color,
2nd Week: Optical radiation, types of spectra, light-material interaction
3rd Week: Introduction to radiometry and photometry
4th Week: Light sources
5th Week: Human color vision
6th Week: Color order systems
7th Week: CIE colorimetry
8th Week: CIE colorimetry
9th Week: CIE colorimetry
10th Week: Color measurement demonstration
11th Week: Color related visual phenomena, chromatic adaptation
12th Week: Standard color management
13th Week: Test

Assessment: Working activity in the classroom and the final test ( The minimum result 50% must be achieved to obtain a signature).

Exam Types:

Written Exam

Compulsory bibliography: Schanda J. (ed.): Colorimetry: Understanding the CIE System John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Recommended bibliography: -

Additional bibliography: Presentations in the Moodle system.

Additional Information: -