Museum Lighting: Optimizing the Illuminant

Color Research and Application

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 121-127

  Scuello, Michael ^a   Abramov, Israel ^a   Gordon, James ^b   Weintraub, Steven ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Art Preservation Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Art; Illuminants; Lighting

Indexed keywords

COLOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IRRADIATION; OPTIMIZATION; PIGMENTS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ART; ILLUMINANTS;

LIGHTING;

COLOR; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PIGMENT; RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 1542303761     PISSN: 03612317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/col.10231     Document Type: Article

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