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Colour Coded

Colour Coded is the edited volume of articles from CREATE, a four-year (2006-10) European-funded cross-disciplinary research project directed by Parraman that involved eight European universities, industry experts, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers across the spectrum from the visual arts to colour science. The aim of CREATE was to rescope the field of colour research by facilitating collaborative projects that crossed conventional disciplinary boundaries, melding nascent research in the visual arts with computational science and technological innovations. As most colour research is based within the discipline of colour science that relates primarily to commercial printing and visual displays, with little reference to the primary user or designer, CREATE shaped and fostered emergent research through this new international interdisciplinary cohort of colour researchers that challenged and redefined existing conventional ideas about computational colour, disseminating cutting-edge research to the commercial and industrial sectors.

Parraman selected and edited the essays collected in Colour Coded and co-authored the Introduction and the chapter, ‘Report on The 3-D Colour Mondrian Project’ (pp. 129-150). This chapter exemplified CREATE’s interdisciplinary collaboration and its user-led approach to investigate appearance and scene rendering in the light of new digital imaging technology. It extended previous research into 2D graphics by analyzing complex, multi-illuminated 3D scenes and challenged colour science conventions by drawing on cross-disciplinary methods, combining colorimetry, photography, psychophysics and fine-art painting.

This research has been disseminated in two symposia: ‘Analysis of Spatial Image Rendering’, CIC18, 18th Color Imaging Conference, San Antonio (November 2010); ‘Colour constancy in real 3D scenes: scene capture and measured observer matches’, International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) Symposium, University of Winchester (July 2013); and in Parraman’s Google Techtalk, HDR and Color Constancy: New Psychophysical Results, co-presented with McCann and Rizzi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmlaLSxj27k).