Does “Color Science” even matter?

TechTalk2 wrote:

JimKasson wrote:

TechTalk2 wrote:

Color science is a foundation encompassing everything required in understanding the: creation, control, reproduction, metrology (measurement), characteristics, properties, and perception of color and color stimuli. It's the growing body of knowledge which informs research and advances development of color technologies, systems, and applications in a variety of diverse fields. If you work in a field involving color— color science matters a great deal.

Color science is an interdisciplinary science which is not narrowly confined as a branch of one science, but is interwoven with many fields of science. Color science incorporates: physics, chemistry, physiology, and psychology and intersects with specialized scientific fields ranging from spectroscopy to neuroscience and numerous others. Fields of endeavor utilizing color science are very broad in art, industry, and scientific research.

Knowledge and application of color science is fundamental to the design and function of components and systems in your color digital camera, display, printer and other color imaging systems. It is at the core of devices and applications used to measure, manage, and control color production, reproduction, and recording.

As indicated earlier in this thread, as someone who was called a color scientist and drew a paycheck from IBM based on that, I find descriptions like the above overly broad.

I'm not surprised you find the description overly broad given you earlier in the thread said: "If we're going to get technical, I consider color science a branch of psychology" which I personally find neither technical or correct. Color science is much broader in its scope, affect, and meaning.

There are university degree programs offered in Color Science such as those at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in the United States. RIT's overview of their doctoral degree program begins with this description of color science:

Color has been an intense topic of interest for thousands of years. Mathematicians, philosophers, physicists, physiologists, poets, and other disciplines have all contributed to our understanding of color. RIT’s color science Ph.D. program allows you to contribute to knowledge creation and practical application of color science. You will conduct extensive research that encompasses diverse fields and multiple disciplines of science.

As a generalization, color science can be defined as the quantification of our perception of color. Its mastery requires a multidisciplinary educational approach encompassing physics, chemistry, physiology, statistics, computer science, neuroscience, and psychology. Color science is used in the design and control of most man-made colored materials including textiles, coatings, and polymers and to specify such diverse materials as soil and wine. It is used extensively in color reproduction including digital photography, desktop and projection display, and printing. Color science is ubiquitous.

I think that debating this with you would be st least as fruitless as many of our previous discussions. I know why they wrote their pitch the way they wrote it.

There is a similar dichotomy between computer science and computer engineering.