To investigate the effects of different glossing conventions on vocabulary recognition and recall, 158 participants were given a pre-test to make sure that they did not have any prior knowledge of the target words. Reading passages with four different glossing conventions (interlinear, marginal, pre-text, and post-text) were given to eight groups. Four groups received interlingual glosses and f...

A high spatial resolution imaging colorimeter and glossmeter is presented. The combination of a high quality imaging colorimeter with an off axis imaging optics and a highly stabilized RGB LED source allows color and gloss measurements of small parts with high accuracy. The characteristics of the system with some experimental results on black coated and printed papers are presented. Introductio...

Predicting the final appearance of a print is crucial in graphic industry. The aim this work to build mathematical model predict visual gloss 2D printed samples. We conducted psychophysical experiment where observers judged samples with different colours and values. For experiment, new reference scale was built. Using results from prediction for assessment has been developed. By using Principal...

In this study, we investigated the color, gloss and surface roughness of bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) samples impregnated with boron and copper based preservatives during accelerated weathering from 168 h to 672 h. Tanalith-E, ACQ, wolmanit-CB were used as copper-based chemicals, while a mixture of boric acid and borax (7:3; w/w) was used as the boron com...

Computer simulated stimuli can provide a flexible method for creating artificial scenes in the study of visual perception of material surface properties. Previous work based on this approach reported that the properties of surface roughness and glossiness are mutually interdependent and therefore, perception of one affects the perception of the other. In this case roughness was limited to a sur...

Two experiments explore the color perception of objects in complex scenes. The first experiment examines the color perception of objects across variation in surface gloss. Observers adjusted the color appearance of a matte sphere to match that of a test sphere. Across conditions we varied the body color and glossiness of the test sphere. The data indicate that observers do not simply match the ...

A study was conducted to evaluate the influence of laboratory light polymerization systems on the post-curing properties of a composite. An indirect composite (Sinfony) was polymerized with five polymerization systems (Visio system, Hyper LII, Pearlcure Light, Twinkle MIII, and UniXS II) using nine polymerization modes. After light exposure, Knoop hardness number, wear depth, and changes in glo...

For over 3 decades, computer graphics technology has been developed to simulate physically accurate image of real scene. Meanwhile, useful tone mapping methods have been developed to map luminance range of the simulated image into that of usual monitor without perceptual distortion. However, it is difficult to reproduce accurate glossiness of real objects within the limited monitor luminance ra...