After 6 months of reviews and one revision, the article mentioned
in my previous post, was accepted and is already published online
at:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/col.21843/abstract
Below are some comments written by reviewers:
"This paper is worth to publish in that it brings back the
forgotten colors of one culture. Especially, based on the more
detailed and improved methodology, it also presents reasonable
methods for investigating traditional colors."
"This article presents a research about identification of
traditional Thai colours for restoration of mural paintings. The
beginning of this research was published online in CRA in November
2011: “Identification of traditional Thai colours used for mural
paintings and Khon masks”. The article we review completes this
previous one with an improved identification method and by adding
some data. The improved identification method describes the use of
a scanner to calculate the average L*a*b* color of a painting that
is inhomogeneous, and the way to match it automatically with
Munsell patches and NCS dictionary. This part is interesting and
described in details. It could be useful for the numerous people
who ever wished to turn their scanner into a colorimeter. The other
main data added to the previous publication is the Thai colour name
dictionary chapter, where are described color names, with
explanation about structure of Thai language and colors that were
identified or not. This part is interesting as this work was never
done before and is important for history and art memory, and it
could help for identification in temple and so conservation. The
last chapter presents a plan to help painting restoration in situ
with photography and application of the Thai color
dictionary."
"This work about identification of traditional Thai colors is very
important for temple art preservation and has never been done. An
important work has been done to retrieve colors corresponding to
traditional Thai color names. In this article is explained in
details a method to turn a scanner in colorimeter, with most of the
tables and references related to the demonstration. As it is an
interesting, work, it should be more detailed in a separated
article. In the presented article, this scanner work is not
mentioned in the title and will not be retrieved by people
searching such information."
The research was not aimed to emit abstract theories of unfinished
nature just for filling the pages of some article. The aim was
declared from the beginning and it consisted in developing a method
for analyzing and identifying the traditional Thai colours and
producing a Traditional Thai Colour Name Dictionary. The final
output main-points of the research are:
1.the first internationally recognized method for analyzing and
identifying traditional Thai Colours, published in Colour Research
and Application Journal in 2 articles and in 2 international
congress proceeding articles, which can be accessed in our
Downloads section;
2.the first ever released Traditional Thai Color Name Dictionary,
presenting 147 traditional Thai colour names analyzed, identified,
quantitatively described, explained, transliterated and translated,
published in Color Research and Application journal;
3.one scientific software named Trichromatic Colour Analyser,
described in 30% of the article published in Colour Research and
Application journal as part of the improved methodology for
analyzing and identifying traditional Thai colours. The software is
developed now into a system that is successfully used in other
projects.
The article is very long and most of it contains no references
because it presents research that has never been done before. The
research is finalized and will have no follow-up articles. But I
have the intention of writing a book with Dr. Preda, in order to
describe extensively and less technically the Traditional Thai
Colours. I am also in the process of creating a database, using the
natural pigments, dyes and binder indicated by the artists, for
assembling recipes through automated matching of calculated
colour-mixtures with the identified CIELAB values of the
Traditional Thai Colours. Ready-to-use colour paints will be
produced with these receips. The work is done in collaboration with
the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Fine Art,
Silapakorn University and the Fine Arts Department of the Ministry
of Culture.
After 6 months of reviews and one revision, the article mentioned
in my previous post, was accepted and is already published online
at:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/col.21843/abstract
Below are some comments written by reviewers:
"This paper is worth to publish in that it brings back the
forgotten colors of one culture. Especially, based on the more
detailed and improved methodology, it also presents reasonable
methods for investigating traditional colors."
"This article presents a research about identification of
traditional Thai colours for restoration of mural paintings. The
beginning of this research was published online in CRA in November
2011: “Identification of traditional Thai colours used for mural
paintings and Khon masks”. The article we review completes this
previous one with an improved identification method and by adding
some data. The improved identification method describes the use of
a scanner to calculate the average L*a*b* color of a painting that
is inhomogeneous, and the way to match it automatically with
Munsell patches and NCS dictionary. This part is interesting and
described in details. It could be useful for the numerous people
who ever wished to turn their scanner into a colorimeter. The other
main data added to the previous publication is the Thai colour name
dictionary chapter, where are described color names, with
explanation about structure of Thai language and colors that were
identified or not. This part is interesting as this work was never
done before and is important for history and art memory, and it
could help for identification in temple and so conservation. The
last chapter presents a plan to help painting restoration in situ
with photography and application of the Thai color
dictionary."
"This work about identification of traditional Thai colors is very
important for temple art preservation and has never been done. An
important work has been done to retrieve colors corresponding to
traditional Thai color names. In this article is explained in
details a method to turn a scanner in colorimeter, with most of the
tables and references related to the demonstration. As it is an
interesting, work, it should be more detailed in a separated
article. In the presented article, this scanner work is not
mentioned in the title and will not be retrieved by people
searching such information."
The research was not aimed to emit abstract theories of unfinished
nature just for filling the pages of some article. The aim was
declared from the beginning and it consisted in developing a method
for analyzing and identifying the traditional Thai colours and
producing a Traditional Thai Colour Name Dictionary. The final
output main-points of the research are:
1.the first internationally recognized method for analyzing and
identifying traditional Thai Colours, published in Colour Research
and Application Journal in 2 articles and in 2 international
congress proceeding articles, which can be accessed in our
Downloads section;
2.the first ever released Traditional Thai Color Name Dictionary,
presenting 147 traditional Thai colour names analyzed, identified,
quantitatively described, explained, transliterated and translated,
published in Color Research and Application journal;
3.one scientific software named Trichromatic Colour Analyser,
described in 30% of the article published in Colour Research and
Application journal as part of the improved methodology for
analyzing and identifying traditional Thai colours. The software is
developed now into a system that is successfully used in other
projects.
The article is very long and most of it contains no references
because it presents research that has never been done before. The
research is finalized and will have no follow-up articles. But I
have the intention of writing a book with Dr. Preda, in order to
describe extensively and less technically the Traditional Thai
Colours. I am also in the process of creating a database, using the
natural pigments, dyes and binder indicated by the artists, for
assembling recipes through automated matching of calculated
colour-mixtures with the identified CIELAB values of the
Traditional Thai Colours. Ready-to-use colour paints will be
produced with these receips. The work is done in collaboration with
the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Fine Art,
Silapakorn University and the Fine Arts Department of the Ministry
of Culture.
The article mentioned in my previous post was accepted after 6
months of reviews and one revision and is now already published as
early view at:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/col.21843/abstract
Below are some comments written by reviewers:
"This paper is worth to publish in that it brings back the
forgotten colors of one culture. Especially, based on the more
detailed and improved methodology, it also presents reasonable
methods for investigating traditional colors."
"This article presents a research about identification of
traditional Thai colours for restoration of mural paintings. The
beginning of this research was published online in CRA in November
2011: Identification of traditional Thai colours used for mural
paintings and Khon masks. The article we review completes this
previous one with an improved identification method and by adding
some data. The improved identification method describes the use of
a scanner to calculate the average L*a*b* color of a painting that
is inhomogeneous, and the way to match it automatically with
Munsell patches and NCS dictionary. This part is interesting and
described in details. It could be useful for the numerous people
who ever wished to turn their scanner into a colorimeter. The other
main data added to the previous publication is the Thai colour name
dictionary chapter, where are described color names, with
explanation about structure of Thai language and colors that were
identified or not. This part is interesting as this work was never
done before and is important for history and art memory, and it
could help for identification in temple and so conservation. The
last chapter presents a plan to help painting restoration in situ
with photography and application of the Thai color
dictionary."
"This work about identification of traditional Thai colors is
very important for temple art preservation and has never been done.
An important work has been done to retrieve colors corresponding to
traditional Thai color names. In this article is explained in
details a method to turn a scanner in colorimeter, with most of the
tables and references related to the demonstration. As it is an
interesting, work, it should be more detailed in a separated
article. In the presented article, this scanner work is not
mentioned in the title and will not be retrieved by people
searching such information."
The research was not aimed to emit abstract theories of
unfinished nature just for filling the pages of some article. The
aim was declared from the beginning and it consisted in developing
a method for analyzing and identifying the traditional Thai colours
and producing a Traditional Thai Colour Name Dictionary. The final
output main-points of the research are:
1. the first internationally recognized method for analyzing
and identifying traditional Thai colours, published in Colour
Research and Application Journal in 2 articles and in 2
international congress proceeding articles, which can be accessed
in our Downloads section at www.thaicolour.com;
2. the first ever released Traditional Thai Color Name
Dictionary, presenting 147 traditional Thai colour names analyzed,
identified, quantitatively described, explained, transliterated and
translated, published in Color Research and Application
journal;
3. one scientific software named Trichromatic Colour Analyser,
described in 30% of the article published in Colour Research and
Application journal as part of the improved methodology for
analyzing and identifying traditional Thai colours; the software is
developed now into a system that is successfully used in other
projects.
The article is 14 pages long (journal's condensed format) and
most of it contains no references because it presents research that
has never been done before. The research is finalized and will have
no follow-up articles. But I have the intention of writing a book
with Dr. Preda, in order to describe extensively and less
technically the Traditional Thai Colours.
I am now in the process of creating a database, using the
natural pigments, dyes and binder indicated by the artists, for
assembling recipes through automated matching of calculated
colour-mixtures with the identified CIELAB values of the
Traditional Thai Colours. Ready-to-use colour paints will be
produced with these receips. The work is done in collaboration with
the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Fine Art,
Silapakorn University and the Fine Arts Department of the Ministry
of Culture.