[See part 1 for bibliography] [Billmeyer & Saltzman, p106] "Always Remember That Nobody Accepts or Rejects for Color Because of Numbers: It Is the Way It Looks That Counts." [Sipley, p84] [Quoting Ives, writing about his 'Polychrome' process in 1933] "In consequence some of the most beautiful color photographs have been made by the Polychrome process by careful balancing of exposures and densities without recourse to reprinting, redyeing, or retouching. But it is also true that equally beautiful results have been obtained when miscalculated exposures and densities have necessitated such compensations; and the facility with which they can be made in the Polychrome process is a revelation to anyone who first sees such work done by an expert." [Billmeyer & Saltzman, p166-7] "First, if the system is going to work, the entire coloring process must be under complete control to a high degree of accuracy. Before even considering trying a system out, much less purchasing one, the prospective user should demonstrate, using instruments, that he can in fact go through the entire coloring process from incoming colorant testing to final product out the door with a reproducability, in terms of color differences, that is satisfactorily small. Believe us, this is not easy, and many prospective users of computer color matching have (or should have) stopped right there." [Hunt, p34] "It will be realized that these three expedients cannot correct for the fundamental limitations of the process, which spring from the nature of the colour machanism of the eye and the shape of the spectral absorption curves of the best available cyan, magenta, and yellow dyes. What is claimed for modern subtractive processes is that they produce pleasing colour pictures, and that the inevitable inaccuracies are balanced in such a way as to be least noticable." [Billmeyer & Saltzman, p66] "Unfortunately, there appear to be strong prejudices associated with industrial and national preferences which have prevented agreement on exactly what the 'perfect' white is, and which directions of departure from it (toward blue, yellow, red) are preferred or avoided. As a result no single formula for whiteness is now widely accepted." ****Color Rendering and Metamerism**** [Billmeyer & Saltzman, p176-7] "Nimeroff (1965) suggested a means of calculating a general index of metamerism from differences in the spectral curves of two samples. It is well known (for example, Wright 1969, Thornton 1978b) that these curves must cross at least three times if the samples are metameric. One gets the general feeling that the more crossings there are, and the closer the curves approximate one another, the less must be the degree of metamerism." [Billmeyer & Saltzman, p177] "Just as the color-rendering index rates sources used for the critical examination of colors, so one could devise a color-preference index for those used for the appreciative viewing of colors. Judd (1967) proposed such an index, in which the base from which the color differences are calculated is the set of colors people would prefer to see, rather than the actual colors of the test samples-- bluer skies, greener grass, ruddier Caucasion flesh tones, and so on." [Billmeyer & Saltzman, p178] "The CIE color-rendering index was designed in studies of, and works best for, sources with continuous spectral power distributions. However, a number of modern energy-efficient flourescent sources, known as prime-color lamps (Haft 1972) and sold under various trade names such as Westinghouse's Ultralume, have discontinuous distributions such as the one shown in page 174. The various indices described in this section, for both metamerism amd color rendering, do not appear to work well for sources with these unusual spectral power distributions. *****Variation in "Normal" Color Vision***** [Billmeyer & Saltzman, p53] "In the figures on page 54 we consider only the change in illuminant, for convenience, but we wish to emphasize that the change in observer to another, *all with 'normal' color vision*, is equally important (Billmeyer, 1980a), a fact all to often overlooked!" [Billmeyer & Saltzman, p72-3] "Differences among observers, all with normal color vision by the usual tests, can lead to at least as great a variation in the judgement of what constitutes a match as can the use of different light sources (Brown 1957, Nimeroff 1962, Smith 1963, Billmeyer 1980a, Kaiser 1980). Unless observer differences are recognized and taken accound of, for example, by prior agreement, no amount of standardization of light sources can lead to satisfactory results. Again, the importance of this often unrecognized variable cannot be overemphasized." [Billmeyer & Saltzman, p174-5] "What is more important, but not yet widely taken into account, is the large spread in observer characteristics within the range considered to have normal color vision. Our warning of the seriousness of this spread in the first edition of this book was largely ignored or disbelieved. We have recently documented it (Billmeyer 1980a) using a Color Rule: When observers of a wide range of ages (roughly 20-60) are considered, the spread in their settings on the Color Rule is as wide as the difference between 6500 K daylight ant "horizon sunlight" in a standard color-matching booth! If the reader has any doubts that this is an important variable in colorimetry, let him observe the difference in appearance of a metameric match using these two sources!" "It is well known that a major part of this spread among normal observers results from the gradual yellowing of the lens of the eye with increasing age. Nardi (1980) has followed up our research to show that in a group of college-age observers (17-29 years old) the spread is about a quarter as great as that indicated above."