Analysing structural color and computing color coordinates, color maps for displays and visualisation

Traditionally color comes from pigments and dyes. Another way of producing iridescent color is to use nanostructures. In nature birds such as peacocks and insects such as Morpho butterflies are known to produce structural color. Much work is done to analyse such structures and understand the generated color. Work is ongoing to develop nanostructures and nanoparticle assemblies that can generate tunable structural color over a broadband of colors.

In this course we will explain how computer generated models can be modeled and simulated using FDTD to analyse structural color.  

In displays it is important to compute and assess the quality of generated color. In this course we would discuss how to compute color coordinates and color maps for use in displays and computer visualisations.