And your point is?
IMO
BC
No real point.
I'm just surprised how accessible the engineers are, compared to the "artists". Of course, most bright-eyed,moneyed and eager students who flock to a photo workshop will not be interested in a course consisting of page after page of equations.
Edmund
context:
Robert William Gainer Hunt
Born at Sidcup, Kent, England, 28th July 1923.
Robert Hunt was awarded a B.Sc (Bachelor of Science) with first class honours, and an A.R.C.S. (Associate of the Royal College of Science), in physics,1940-1943, and a D.I.C. (Diploma of Imperial College) in Technical Optics,1946-47, all from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. He was also awarded a Ph.D (Doctor of Philosophy), 1953, and a D.Sc (Doctor of Science), 1968, from the University of London. He worked as an Experimental Officer at the Ministry of Supply on optical sighting devices for tanks, 1943-46. He was a research scientist at the Kodak Research Laboratories, Harrow, 1946-82, where he worked on factors affecting the quality of colour images, and devices for making reflection prints from both negative and positive images on film; he was finally Assistant Director of Research. Since 1982 he has worked as an independent colour consultant, and has taken a leading role in the development of colour appearance models. He was a Visiting Professor of Physiological Optics at the City University, London, 1967-1998, a Visiting Professor of Colour Science at the Colour & Imaging Institute at the University of Derby, England, 1994-2004, and a Visiting professor of Colour Science at the Department of Colour Science at the University of Leeds, 2004-2009. He has been Chairman of the Colour Group of Great Britain, 1961-63; Chairman of the Colorimetry Committee of the Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage (CIE), 1975-83; and President of the International Colour Association (AIC), 1981-85. He has written over a hundred papers on colour vision, colour reproduction, and colour measurement, and two books 'The Reproduction of Colour' now in its sixth edition, and 'Measuring Colour' now in its fourth edition co-authored with Michael Pointer. His current research interests include modelling the human system of colour vision so as to be able to predict how colours will appear in different viewing conditions, and applying colour science to practical problems in industry and in the environment. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Fellow of the Royal Television Society, Honorary Fellow of the British Kinematography Sound and Television Society, Honorary Member of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, and Honorary Fellow of the Society of Dyers and Colourists. He is a member of the Royal Institution and has served as one of its Vice-Presidents, 1985-87. He has been awarded the Newton Medal of the Colour Group (Great Britain), 1974, the Progress Medal of the Royal Photographic Society, 1984, the Judd-AIC Medal of the International Colour Association, 1987, the Gold Medal of the Institute of Printing, 1989, the Johann Gutenberg Prize of the Society for Information Display, 2002, the Godlove Award of the Inter-Society Color Council (U.S.A.), 2007. and Honorary Fellowship of the Society of Dyers and Colourists, 2009. For services to the field of colour science and to young people through Crusaders he was appointed an Officer of the British Empire (O.B.E.) in 2009.
His interests include: all aspects of colour science, visiting interesting places in the world, photography, and railways. The most important things in his life are: his Christian Faith, he is an Elder and lay preacher in his local church; and his family, he married Eileen Mary (née Redhead) in 1947, and his family consist of his wife, their four children and their four spouses, twelve grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
