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This site has been conceived of as a resource for investigators in the field of spectral imaging with emphasis on the sub-topics of interest to the research staff and faculty of the Munsell Color Science Laboratory . We look forward to growing its features and to improving its connectivity to other sites of similar interest. While the Munsell Laboratory is hosting these pages as a service to the community, we encourage the participation of all, both within RIT and outside. We would be happy to consider submissions of spectral images and technical papers to add to our database and we would appreciate information concerning other web sites which we should add to our link list. For these or other items, please contact Mitchell Rosen
This project is named Lippmann2000 in honor of Gabriel Lippmann who in 1891 devised a method to perfectly reconstruct the spectral content of real world scenes. In spite of Lippmann's invention, a more primitive three-channel model, first demonstrated by James Clerk Maxwell 30 years prior, has dominated the color imaging field. The Maxwellian model, universal in today's color image capture systems, relies on the metameric properties of the human visual system to simulate the appearance of an original color. The capture of full spectral data, while holding advantage over traditional three-channel methods offers new challenges at every point in the imaging chain.
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