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A few links to color, its use in astronomy, and assorted other topics. If you have a link you think might fit into this eclectic list, let me know about it.
http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/astro/color.html
A page of basics and a launch point for some other color topics.
http://www.inforamp.net/~poynton/Poynton-colour.html
Poynton's color pages. Lucid descriptions by a skilled practitioner and presenter.
http://aibn47.astro.uni-bonn.de/~gallery/articles/imagecolor.html
http://aibn47.astro.uni-bonn.de/~gallery/articles/color.html
Till Credner & Sven Kohle
A nice description of color useage in astronomy lavishly illustrated with examples.
http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/galileo_probe/htmls/jupiter_appearance.html
This is an interesting series on the colors of Jupiter over the years. How did that spot get named?
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/sRGB.html
http://www.sRGB.com
The very definition of sRGB.
http://www.color.org
International Color Consortium (ICC), the foundation of contemporary color management.
http://www.robo.mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~niimi/color-space/COL_.htm
Brief summaries and useful conversion formulas are compiled here.
http://www.cis.rit.edu/research/mcsl/online/research.shtml
Current color research topics.
TrueColor.html
My $ 0.02 in the "true color" debates.
Copyright 2000-Jun-11
Thor Olson