Rejuvenating the color palette of Georges Seurat's A sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884: A simulation

Color Research and Application

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 278-293

  Berns, Roy S ^a   Byrns, Siobhan ^b,c   Casadio, Francesca ^b   Fiedler, Inge ^b   Gallagher, Christopher ^b   Imai, Francisco H ^a,d   Newman, Alan ^b,e   Taplin, Lawrence ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Designed Objects Sch Art Inst C   (United States)

^c Samsung Information Systems America ^*  (United States)

^d SAMSUNG INFORMATION SYSTEMS AMERICA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorant aging; Digital rejuvenation; Georges Seurat; Kubelka munk; La Grande Jatte; Zinc yellow

Indexed keywords

COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PAINTING; REFLECTOMETERS;

COLORANT AGING; DIGITAL REJUVENATION; GEORGES SEURAT; KUBELKA MUNK; LA GRANDE JATTE; ZINC YELLOW;

COLOR;

EID: 33745530200     PISSN: 03612317     EISSN: 15206378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/col.20223     Document Type: Article

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