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Book review Color and the Optical Properties of Materials , 2nd Ed . by Richard J. D. Tilley , Wiley , 2011 , 526 pp, US $79.95 Eileen Korenic. One of the courses I teach through my Physics Department is a multidisciplinary course called “Science and Art.” We explore the physics concepts of space, time, and light and how artistic movements often paralleled physics concepts. One of the concepts we look at in great detail as there are so many parallels is color—how we see it, how it is produced, and how artists use it to express more than wavelengths. I was inspired to add a section on how color can be produced through structure rather than pigment and set about trying to find appropriate readings, examples, diagrams, and explanations as supplements to my own lectures and had been looking far and wide through many resources with here and there finding something useful . . . . when Richard Tilley's “Colour and the Optical Properties of Materials” arrived. What a find and exactly suited to my needs! There are chapters directly describing color due to reflection, refraction, diffraction, and scattering. From a physics and optical science viewpoint, these chapters discuss http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Color Research & Application Wiley

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
ISSN
0361-2317
eISSN
1520-6378
DOI
10.1002/col.20720
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Color and the Optical Properties of Materials , 2nd Ed . by Richard J. D. Tilley , Wiley , 2011 , 526 pp, US $79.95 Eileen Korenic. One of the courses I teach through my Physics Department is a multidisciplinary course called “Science and Art.” We explore the physics concepts of space, time, and light and how artistic movements often paralleled physics concepts. One of the concepts we look at in great detail as there are so many parallels is color—how we see it, how it is produced, and how artists use it to express more than wavelengths. I was inspired to add a section on how color can be produced through structure rather than pigment and set about trying to find appropriate readings, examples, diagrams, and explanations as supplements to my own lectures and had been looking far and wide through many resources with here and there finding something useful . . . . when Richard Tilley's “Colour and the Optical Properties of Materials” arrived. What a find and exactly suited to my needs! There are chapters directly describing color due to reflection, refraction, diffraction, and scattering. From a physics and optical science viewpoint, these chapters discuss

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Color Research & ApplicationWiley

Published: Oct 1, 2011

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