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The 2006 Whitehead Lectures on Cognition, Computation & Creativity
Wilhelm Ostwald's contributions to colorimetry dominated colour science of continental Europe in the first half of the 20th century yet have almost totally vanished from the textbooks of today. It remains virtually unknown that Ostwald's color atlas is a conceptual entity, based on formal colorimetry, as opposed to the Munsell atlas (in current use) that is based upon eye measures. The key ideas can easily be formalized and are remarkably elegant and useful if only a few minor issues are dealt with. The result is a happy synthesis between two (apparently) mutually exclusive threads, one the Newton-Maxwell-Helmholtz-Schroedinger, the other the Goethe-Schopenhauer-Hering-Ostwald tradition.
Jan Koenderink graduated in Physics and Mathematics in 1967 at Utrecht University. He was associate professor in Experimental Psychology at the Universiteit Groningen, then in 1974 returned to the Universiteit Utrecht where he presently holds a chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He founded the Helmholtz Instituut in which multidisciplinary work in biology, medicine, physics and computer science is coordinated.He has received an honorary degree (D.Sc.) in Medicine from the University of Leuven and is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current interests include the mathematics and psychophysics of space and form in vision and active touch, the structure of perceptual spaces, and ecological physics, including applications in art and design.
The 2006 Whitehead Lectures on Cognition, Computation & Creativity
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| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 16 Nov 2006 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
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