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I took a very heavy emphasis on color math while at school, figured I'd dump a few more useful resources on the pile:

* John the May guy - http://johnthemathguy.blogspot.com/ - Breaks down advanced color math/science concepts in very plain English. Complete with helpful charts and graphs. He's very approachable if you have questions. If you are in the print/GC industry, you'll probably run into him at trade shows.

* Bruce Lindbloom - http://www.brucelindbloom.com/ - Look past the tacky website and into the "Math" and "Calc" sub-sections. Tons of great theory, formulas, and calculators. Make sure you doublecheck the formulas against other sources, I did run into a small discrepancy or two (that I can't recall). I've also been able to get responses from him through email, which is nice.

* EasyRGB - http://www.easyrgb.com/index.php?X=MATH - More transform/delta E functions. Some of these are kind of crude, so I tend to look at Bruce Lindbloom or CIE directly when possible, but EasyRGB can sometimes fill in some gaps.

* python-colormath - http://python-colormath.readthedocs.org/ - And of course, I can't resist shamelessly plugging my Python color math module.

Color math is funky stuff, and at times very hard to get help with. There aren't many easily-reached people out there that have a deep understanding of it. But if you keep hammering your head against it, you'll learn through osmosis over time.

If this is something that interests you enough, RIT and I think Cal Poly both have color science degrees and certificates. Imaging companies eat these graduates up in a hurry.



Apologies, the first link should be titled "John the Math guy". Looks like I missed my window to edit that.




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