Year Reported by Idea Field

1000 Alhazon Object’s light imaged on the light sensitive retina Optics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Optics

1500 Leonardo Colors are most beautiful surrounded by opposites Painting, Vision

Leonardo da Vinci, "XXX Colour" in "Notebooks of Leonardi daVinci", E. McCurdy, ed. George Braziller:New York,921-926, (1939)

1672 Newton “The rays are not colored” Physics, Vision

I. Newton, Opticks, 4th ed. London (1730) [reproduction]

<https://www.google.com/books/edition/Opticks/GnAFAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=I.+Newton,+Optics&printsec=frontcover>

I. Newton, Opticks, 4th ed. (1730), Dover Publications, Inc., New York, (1952)

Review paper on history of color theories (quotes and references)

https://www.retinex2.net/Publications/ewExternalFiles/1973SPSE.pdf

1707 J.C. LeBlon 4-color separation records, hand rockers Color Printing

LeBlon's "Coloritto"[reproduction]

https://archive.org/details/Colorittoharmon00LeBl/page/20/mode/2up

J.C. LeBlon, Coloritto, Faber Birren, Introduction, Van Nostrand Reinhold, (1980)

Review paper on history of photograpy (references)

https://www.retinex2.net/Publications/ewExternalFiles/Picture%20Making.pdf

1828 Goethe Attacks on Newton Writer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe

Eastlake Translation, with Introduction by Dean B. Judd (1969), pp. v-xvi

Judd, an influential 20th century colorimetrist, explains Goethe's experiments using more modern understanding of visual mechanisms

<https://www.google.com/books/edition/Theory_of_Colours/7uVMAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=goethe,+color+theory&printsec=frontcover>

1861 J.C.Maxwell 3 color photographic separation made with RGB Color Photo

J.C. Maxwell,"Experiment on Colour", Trans.Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol.XXL Part II, in"Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell," W.D. Niven, Ed., Dover Publications, Inc., New York, N.Y., 135-137, (1965)

100th anniversary of Maxwell's first color photograph

Ralph Evans, "Maxwell's Color Photograph" Scientific American, 198 (11), 118-128, 1961

1961MaxwellPhotoEvans

Review papers on history of color photography (quotes and references)

https://www.retinex2.net/Publications/ewExternalFiles/1973SPSE.pdf

https://www.retinex2.net/Publications/ewExternalFiles/1998%20JISTf.pdf

1861 J.C.Maxwell Measured 3 sensitivity functions -> CIE X,Y,Z RGB sensitivity

J C Maxwell, “XXI. On the Theory of Colours, and the Relations of the Colours of the Spectrum”, in The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell Vol. 1, W. D. Niven, ed., New York: Dover; . 410–444 (1965)

Assumptions of CIE Colorimetry: J.J. McCann,“What scene information is needed for Models of Color Appearancein the Natural World?” Coloration Technology, 137(1), 5-15, Nov 22, 2020.

https://www.retinex2.net/Publications/ewExternalFiles/2020Coloration%20f.pdf

1872 Hering/Helmholtz Debate about Constancy Psychophysics

Helmholtz used molecular physics to explain the eyes' response to light (Bottom-Up)

Hering observed that objects have constant Appearance in variable illumination

E. Hering, Zur Lehre vom Lightsinne, (1872) trans."Theory of yhthe Light Sense", Harvard Un.Press:Cambridge, 13-17 (1964)

Helmholtz proposed unconscous inference to recognize and discount illumination (Top-Down)

H. von Helmholtz, PhysiologicaI Optics vol2, SouthaII, Ed., Optical Soc. of Am, p. 287, (1924)

Bootton-Up verses Top-Down debate continues today (150 years later)

1939 Ansel Adams Zone System Photographer

Review paper on Adam's Zone Sytem photograpy of HDR scenes (references)

https://www.retinex2.net/Publications/ewExternalFiles/10EI%207527-28%20ADAMS.pdf

1957 E.H. Land Red and White - 2 color photography Color vision

E. H. Land, “Experiments in Color Vision”, Scientific American, 200, 84-99, (1959)

1959LandSciAm.pdf

J.J. McCann, J. L. Benton and S. P. McKee, "Red/white projections and rod/long-wave cone color: an annotated bibliography," J. Electronic Imaging 13(1), 8-14 (2004)

https://www.retinex2.net/Publications/ewExternalFiles/2004aRW%20Rod.pdf

1963 E.H. Land 3 lightness separations to predict color - Retinex Color vision

E. H. Land, "The Retinex", Am. Scient. 52, 217-264 (1964)

E.H. Land, “The Retinex Theory of Color Vision”,Scientific American , 237( 6 ), 108–28, (1971)

https://www.retinex2.net/Publications/ewExternalFiles/77LandSciAm.pdf

J.J. McCann, S.P. McKee & T. Taylor,"Quantitative Studies in Retinex Theory, A Comparison BetweenTheoretical Predictions and Observer Responses to Color Mondrian Experiments", Vision Res., 16, 445-58, (1976).

https://www.retinex2.net/Publications/ewExternalFiles/76MMT%20VisRes.pdf

1967 Land & McCann Ratio Product Reset model to predict lightness Computer vision

Patents and review papers

https://mccannimaging.com/Retinex/Patents_files/US3553360A1.pdf

https://mccannimaging.com/Retinex/Patents_files/US3651252.pdf

Spatial model for calculating Lightness

https://www.retinex2.net/Publications/ewExternalFiles/L%26M1971.pdf

https://www.retinex2.net/Publications/ewExternalFiles/Land%201974%20RI.pdf

1968 Hubel & Wiesel Spatial processing in the Cortex Neurophysiology

Edges stimulate the visual cortex

https://knowingneurons.com/2014/10/29/hubel-and-wiesel-the-neural-basis-of-visual-perception/

D. Hubel & T. Wiesel, "Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration" ISBN-10: 0195176189