"The plate at each point only sends back……" — Gabriel Lippmann
"The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image."
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Gabriel Lippmann
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12 Quotes by Gabriel Lippmann
Gabriel Lippmann has 12 quotes on this site.
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[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it…
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When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
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This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when…
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Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the…
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Life is short and progress is slow.
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In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an…
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I got quite good results from protein plates.
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference…
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More Colour Quotes
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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