Color chemistry - a priori computational approach - Ⅰ

摘要

Color plays a major role in the sustenance of life. Understanding color in both materialistic and philosophical perspective has been of top priority among intellectuals. Almost everyone - biologists, chemists, physicists, mathematician....- has made attempts to understand color. Prediction of color of a substance at all levels has been widely researched with a view to develop an a priori approach for synthesising and understanding functional colored materials. As it is widely known today, colors and colorants do serve not only from an aesthetic point of view but also from a functional point of view. It is a manifestation of interaction of electromagnetic ra iation with the materials in this universe as interpreted by the brain with the help of an ever-sophisticated optical organ - the eye.