OPTOM 351Visual Perception 3: Colour Vision
- Faculty
- Science
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1983–84 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Introduction to colour vision and colorimetry. Laws of colour mixture, chromaticity diagrams. Colour matching and colour discrimination. Characteristics of normal and defective colour vision. The design and application of colorimeters, anomaloscopes, and colour vision screening tests. Congenital and acquired defects of colour vision.
As printed in the 1988–89 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: OPTOM 261
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1983–84 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1988–89 to 1994–95 7 calendars
Introduction to colour vision and colorimetry. Laws of colour mixture, chromaticity diagrams. Colour matching and colour discrimination. Characteristics of normal and defective colour vision. The design and application of colorimeters, anomaloscopes, and colour vision screening tests. Congenital and acquired defects of colour vision.
Prereq: OPTOM 261
Offered Winter · 3 class, 3 lab hours a week · 0.5 credit
1983–84 to 1987–88 5 calendars
Increment thresholds and Stiles mechanisms. Laws of colour mixture. Chromaticity diagrams. Colour matching and colour discrimination. Characteristics of normals and colour defectives. The design of visual colorimeters, anomaioscopes and of colour vision screening tests. Congenital and acquired defects of colour vision.
Prereq: OPTOM 261