A three-dimensional color space from the 13th century

Smithson, Hannah E.; Dinkova-Bruun, Greti; Gasper, Giles E.M.; Huxtable, Mike; McLeish, Tom C.B.; Panti, Cecilia

Abstract

We present a new commentary on Robert Grosseteste’s De colore, a short treatise that dates from the early 13th century, in which Grosseteste constructs a linguistic combinatorial account of color. In contrast to other commentaries (e.g., Kuehni & Schwarz, Color Ordered: A Survey of Color Order Systems from Antiquity to the Present, 2007, p. 36), we argue that the color space described by Grosseteste is explicitly three-dimensional. We seek the appropriate translation of Grosseteste’s key terms, making reference both to Grosseteste’s other works and the broader intellectual context of the 13th century, and to modern color spaces.

Citation

Smithson, H. E., Dinkova-Bruun, G., Gasper, G. E., Huxtable, M., McLeish, T. C., & Panti, C. (2012). A three-dimensional color space from the 13th century. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 29(2), A346-A352. https://doi.org/10.1364/josaa.29.00a346

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Feb 1, 2012
• Deposit Date: Apr 25, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 3, 2012
• Journal: Journal of the Optical Society of America A.
• Print ISSN: 1084-7529
• Electronic ISSN: 1520-8532
• Publisher: Optica
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 2
• Pages: A346-A352
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/josaa.29.00a346
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1507188