#ColorScience 🧪 🌈 🎨

Here's a snippet of some of the work happening here in the Munsell Color Science Laboratory at RIT!

(Left) Sunflower illuminated by daylight-like lighting that makes it appear yellow, and (Right) same sunflower illuminated by white light with RGB peaks that makes it appear orange

Yesterday in Principles of Color Science 🧪 Teaching about Color Rendition, basically how the spectral characteristics of light sources can affect object colors. Color is not just an object property, but it strongly depends on lighting, too! Here's the same sunflower under two different white lights:

We're still accepting applications for a TT Asst Professor of Neuroscience 🧪🧠
Submit soon; we're already reading CVs!

Today in Principles of Color Science 🧪 Lighting technologies including phosphor-converted (PC)-white LEDs. I keep this ~2010 remote-phosphor LED bulb around just to show how the blue LEDs stimulate fluorescence in the yellow plastic phosphor to produce white light. Today's LEDs integrate this #LED

Looking for a faculty role in Neuroscience? 🧪🧠
RIT is hiring a tenure-track assistant prof to support our Neuroscience BS program and related PhD programs. Vision, neurobiology, computational, all welcome!
tinyurl.com/RITNeuroFacu...
#AcademicSky #AcademicJobs #academia

Text in the image: RIT College of Science is hiring tenure-track faculty positions in Neuroscience, Mathematics, Physics, and Ecology. See rit.edu/careers

RIT is hiring in the College of Science 🧪
rit.edu/careers

Color targets on a table, including Macbeth ColorChecker, CC DC, CC SG, and Avian Next Generation Target

Today in Principles of Color Science 🧪
Teaching about color targets -- uses, important characteristics, history, variety. From the venerable ColorChecker to the Next Generation Target. Also Kodak's Tri-Shirleys! #ColorScience #MCSL

Simons Empire Faculty Fellowship to fund four College of Science positions RIT’s College of Science will receive funding from the Simons Empire Faculty Fellows program for four junior tenure-track faculty positions.

Supported by Simons Foundation Empire Faculty Fellowship!
www.rit.edu/news/simons-...

New faculty position in #Neuroscience! 🧠🧪
Hiring a new Tenure-Track assistant professor in RIT's Neuroscience program. Highly interested in visual neuro, neurobiology, computational neuro
Check it out here: tinyurl.com/RITNeuroFacu...
#academicsky #academicjobs #academia #science #highereducation

Photo of a page of Berns' Principles of Color Technology with diagrams of spectrophotometer geometry, also showing a gloss series on a printed card

Today in Principles of Color Science 🧪
Teaching about color measurement geometry and the effect of gloss & sheen. 45°:0° vs 8°:de vs 8°:di
Ideally a measurement is representative of viewing, in which case excluding gloss is good!

Afternoon poster session at the #cvsretreat2025

🧪 Job Alert - RIT will be posting a new Tenure-Track faculty position in Neuroscience. Looking for someone with neurobiology experience doing research with visual and/or computational neuroscience. Any amazing neuroscientists out there? Job posting coming soon... www.rit.edu/study/neuros...

This is figure 4, which shows imaging with monolithically stacked-detector arrays in cross-bar configuration.

A paper in Nature reports on a perovskite-based full-colour imaging sensor that can outperform existing platforms. The findings could help improve consumer electronics and aid the development of sensors for artificial intelligence and machine vision. go.nature.com/3TwseDE 🧪

Kinda want a poster of this!

We’re pleased to announce that Dr. Seth Hubbard has been named Head of RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, starting July 1, 2025! A faculty member since 2006, he brings a wealth of expertise and proven leadership as he looks ahead to guiding the school’s growth in the years to come. #RIT #STEM

Pi (π) never ends—just like our curiosity for discovery. This infinite number plays a finite role in shaping the world around us—from physics to technology. Happy Pi Day! #PiDay #PiDay2025 #mathematics

A seemingly random 100x100 grid with each square filled in one of 10 colors. Each color represents digital according to a key on the side of the side of the diagram. Together they show the first 10,000 digits of pi.

Happy π day!

Here’s a color-coded representation of the first 10,000 digits. Read it left-to-right and top-to-bottom. 🧪 🎢 🧮

Full Link to article ➡️”Visual simulation of intraocular lenses: technologies and applications [Invited]” @opg.optica.org @optica.org ⁦‪ #AdaptiveOptics #SimVis #Presbyopia #Ophthalmology ⁦‪ #IntraocularLens #CataractSurgery #RefractiveSurgery
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Wooden Spoon Only Thing In Man’s Life That Not Giving Him Cancer

Wooden Spoon Only Thing In Man’s Life That Not Giving Him Cancer
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Our lab is building a camera that measures the speed of millions of blood cells/second in the eye.
It uses invisible far red-shifted light.
Goal: evaluate health through the clarity of the eye

elifesciences.org/articles/45077

@urneuroscience.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social

Photo of a presentation slide by Michael Rudd, showing two disks surrounded by bright annuli, referring to a Vision Research paper from 2004, "Edge Integration Model for Disk/Annulus Display"

Just back from IS&T Electronic Imaging conference in San Francisco. Lots of interesting presentations, especially one from Michael Rudd of U Nevada Reno that is relevant to my recent work on the visual effects of borders in Augmented Reality

Infographic on what lego bricks are made from. Present-day lego is made from acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). Dyes are added for colour. Polycarbonate polymers are used for transparent lego parts. For leaves, bushes and trees Lego now uses polyethene derived from sugar cane.

It's #InternationalLegoDay!

What's Lego made of? Why is treading on one excruciatingly painful? Why shouldn't you put 1970s Lego in your mouth?

Here's a graphic and post that attempt to answer all that: bit.ly/4aB1o4Z

#ChemSky 🧪

a green streak of aurora across the night sky

a green streak of aurora across the night sky, a lake in the foreground

a green streak of aurora across the night sky, a lake in the foreground, some tourists with phones visible closer still

first attempt photographing some northern lights, with a phone, using night settings and 5 second exposure

I know a guy with a link to the recording...

I'll share this with our #ColorScience grad students

Dr. Brian Wandell at a lectern explaining a diagram of the eye as simulated in the ISETBio software

Last week: Brian Wandell of Stanford VISTA Lab at @cvsuor.bsky.social telling us about ISETbio and related things. Great simulation suite for optics, imaging, and vision!

New NASA, USGS funding continues RIT partnership with Landsat RIT researchers continue partnership with Landsat through new grants from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey to prepare for Landsat Next launch.

RIT researchers have been a partner with Landsat projects for decades, and a group is now helping the program prepare for its next iteration with Landsat Next.

We’re proud to announce Dr. Dimah Dera, Assistant Professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, has been appointed as the Frederick and Anna B. Wiedman II Endowed Chair! This prestigious endowment honors her achievements in #research, scholarship, and #teaching excellence at RIT.

Howdy, bisky!