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Gabriel Lippmann
Scientist
Born:
Aug 16
,
1845
Died:
Jul 13
,
1921
Case
Colour
Each
Facing
Progress
Simple
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Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.
Gabriel Lippmann
Enough
Out
Carry
Easy
Developed
Taken
Hotel
Hotel Room
Pictures
Most
Method
Were
Proves
Which
While
Room
Travelling
When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
Gabriel Lippmann
Light
Reflection
White
Selective
Colour
Because
Subjected
Afterwards
Shot
Appears
The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
Gabriel Lippmann
Final
Photographic
About
Takes
Developing
Hour
Drying
Operations
Quarter
Series
Washing
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
Gabriel Lippmann
Photography
Problem
Has-Been
Direct
Facing
Colour
Since
Been
Turn
Century
Us
Last
Last Century
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.
Gabriel Lippmann
Simple
Other
Back
Destroyed
Eye
Constituent
Only
Point
Colour
Colours
Thus
Imprinted
Sends
Interference
Plate
Each
Image
In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.
Gabriel Lippmann
Values
Interval
Slight
Say
Systems
Must
Composite
Case
Layer
Colour
Obtained
Occupied
Continuous
Infinitely
Infinity
Sensitive
Them
Manner
Separating
Whole
During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
Gabriel Lippmann
Mirror
Half
Other
Wavelength
Distant
Those
Takes
Rays
Between
Reflected
Formation
Place
Interference
Incident
Exposure
Each
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