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Collates work from such fields as optics, imaging, color chemistry, industrial color, coating technologies, and color physics. Serves as an interdisciplinary reference, linking fundamental concepts of color science to applications of color. Discusses recent technological advances of color science and technology and speculates on the future of color. Assembles for the first time in one centralized work the broad interdisciplinary field of color science and technology