The Theory of Colour

Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting

The Theory of Colour

  • Event time: 11:30am
  • Event date: 29th October 2014
  • Speaker: Tom Ives (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

I will give a brief overview of colour theory from a physicists perspective and start by talking about what colour actually is and how we can describe it mathematically. Then, hopefully, I will show how that can be used to select a good colour palette for making graphs.