Fig 3.

1 – Color Spectrum Seen By Passing White Light through a Prism

Fig 3.2 – Wavelengths Comprising the Visible Range of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Fig 3.3 – Absorption of Light by the Red, Green and Blue Cones in the Human Eye as a
Function of Wavelength

Fig 3.4 – Primary and Secondary Colors of Light and Pigments

Fig 3.5 – Chromaticity Diagram
Fig 3.6 – Typical Color Gamut of Color Monitors (Triangle) and

Color Printing Devices (Irregular Region)

 Fig 3.1 – Schematic of the RGB Color Cube

Points along the Main Diagonal have Gray Values from

Black at the Origin to White at Point (1, 1, 1)

Fig 3.2 – RGB 24-Bit Color Cube

Fig 3.3 – Generating the RGB Image of the Cross Sectional Color Plane (127, G, B)

The Three Hidden Surface Planes in the Color Cube of Fig – 3.2
 Fig 3.4 – The 216 Safe RGB Colors

All the Grays in the 256 Color RGB Systems

Fig 3.5 – The RGB Safe Color Cube

Fig 3.6 – Primary and Secondary Colors of Light and Pigments
Fig 3.7 – Conceptual Relationships between the RGB and HIS Color Models

Fig 3.8 – Hue and Saturation in the HIS Color Model

Fig 3.9 – The HIS Color Model based on Triangular and Circular Color Planes

The Triangles and Circles are Perpendicular to the Vertical Intensity Axis
Fig 3.10 – HIS Components of the Image in Fig – 3.2

Hue, Saturation, Intensity Images

Fig 3.11 – RGB Image and the Components of Its Corresponding HIS Image,

Hue, Saturation and Intensity

Fig 3.12 – Modified HIS Component Images

Resulting RGB Image

 Fig 3.13 – Geometric Interpretation of the Intensity Slicing Technique

Fig 3.14 – An Alternative Representation of the Intensity Slicing Technique

Fig 3.15 – Monochrome Image of the Picker Thyroid Phantom

Result of Density Slicing into Eight Colors

Fig 3.16 – Monochrome X-Ray Image of a Weld

Result of Color Coding

Fig 3.17 – Gray Color Image in which Intensity corresponds to Average Monthly Rainfall

Colors Assigned to Intensity Values

Color Coded Image

Zoom of the South American Region

Fig 3.18 – Functional Block Diagram for Pseudo Color Image Processing

Fig 3.19 – Pseudo Color Enhancement of using the

Gray Level to Color Transformations in Fig – 3.20

Fig 3.20 – Transformation Functions used to obtain the Images in Fig – 2.19
Fig 3.21 – A Pseudo Color Coding Approach used

When Several Monochrome Images are Available

 Fig 3.22 – (a) – (d) Images in Bands 1 – 4

(e) Color Composite Image Obtained by Treating (a), (b), (c)

as Red, Green, Blue Components of an RGB Image

(f) Image Obtained in the Same Manner but using

in the Red Channel the Near-Infrared Image in (d)

Fig 3.23 – Pseudo Color Rendition of Jupiter Moon

A Close up Image
Fig 3.24 – Spatial Masks for Gray Scale and RGB Color Images