Principal Investigator

An investigation is proposed into the effect image size has on color appearance of softcopy reproductions. Summer support for a student stipend is requested. Original and reproduced art are usually viewed under different viewing conditions. One of the interesting differences in viewing condition is size difference. Many art objects have a size much larger than their reproductions, whether displayed on a monitor or in print. In order to develop a fundamental understanding of the effect of image size on color appearance, a digital projector and LCD display were used in a series of psychophysical experiments. It is proposed to further explore achromatic and chromatic contrast matching between different sized images with the goal of developing a model capable of accounting for the “size effect ” on color appearance