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Scientific aspects of the phenomenon of color perception have captured the interest of artists, musicians, and writers during the past two centuries. The German poet Goethe made many detailed observations about color perception and presented his ideas in a book entitled Farbenlehre (Theory of Colors) (1810) [1.1, 2], which in the opinion of a prominent color authority Deane B. Judd (1900–1972) “may come to be recognized as foreshadowing, however dimly, the next important advance in the theory of color” [Ref. 1.1, p. xvi].
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Agoston, G.A. (1987). Introduction. In: Color Theory and Its Application in Art and Design. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34734-7_1
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