Registration Number Topic
17-TE-01 Light Fundamentals: Introduction, Nature of light, Characteristics of
17-TE-03 Light. Phenomena of Light: reflection, refraction, diffraction, dispersion,
interference, polarization etc. Also discus laws of the above phenomena.
17-TE-19 Color Fundamentals: Introduction, Color visualization model. Causes of
17-TE-24 color: physical as well as chemical. Color harmony
17-TE-15 Light Sources: Introduction, difference between sources, illuminants and
17-TE-27 daylight simulators. Black body radiations. Discuss sources of light and
CIE illuminants. Characterization of light sources: color temperature,
correlated color temperature, luminous efficiency, color rendition.
17-TE-34 Substrates: Laws of reflection, transmission and scattering. Reflection
17-TE-35 and reflectance factor. Issues with textile samples.
17-TE-32 Photodetectors: Anatomy of the human eye. Modes of vision. Theories
17-TE-33 of color vision. Color vision defects. Characteristics of light sensors.
17-TE-26 Color Mixing: Introduction, types of color mixing – additive, subtractive
17-TE-28 and complex. Guild and Wright color matching experiments.
Grassmann’s laws of color mixing. Color matching functions of the eye –
2 degrees and 10 degrees.
17-TE-05 Color Order Systems: Introduction, importance of color order systems.
17-TE-07 Discuss the design and working of Munsell, NCS and Ostwald systems.
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17-TE-02 Colorimetery: Introduction. Color measurement model. Colorimeters,
17-TE-25 types and working principles. Spectrophotometers, types, working
principles. Anatomy of a spectrophotometer. Calibration issues
17-TE-20 CIE Color Specification System: Introduction to CIE and its role. Real and
17-TE-21 Imaginary primaries. How to compute tristimulus values using CIE and
ASTM standards.
17-TE-17 Color Spaces: Introduction, discuss various CIE color spaces such as XYZ,
17-TE-18 Yxy, L*a*b*, L*u*v* etc.
17-TE-04 Color Difference Evaluation: Introduction, significance of color
17-TE-06 difference. Uniform and non-uniform color spaces. Discuss color
difference formulae CMC (l:c), CIEDE94 and CIEDE2000.
17-TE-13 Pass – Fail System: Introduction, Importance of Pass-Fail system.
17-TE-14 Differentiate perceptibility and acceptability. How tolerances are set for
Pass-Fail judgements.
17-TE-22 Color Matching and Metamerism: Introduction, discuss visual color
17-TE-23 matching. Discuss Kubelka-Munk theory of light absorption and
scattering. What is computer color matching? Discuss various algorithms
for color matching.
17-TE-29 Shade Sorting: Introduction, differentiate Pass-Fail and shade sorting.
17-TE-30 Classification and shade sorting systems. Discuss 555 shade sorting
system and its modifications.
17-TE-10 Whiteness and Yellowness: Introduction. Whiteness, Yellowness and
17-TE-11 Tint. Discuss various formulae to calculate Whiteness, Tint and
Yellowness. Discuss the working principles of OBA and Blueing agents.
17-TE-08 Industrial Applications of Color: How maturity of cotton fibers can be
17-TE-09 measure. Computer-based color fastness grading. Purity of dyes.