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Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants (2023)
Journal Article
Trujillo-Vazquez, A., Abedini, F., Pranovich, A., Parraman, C., & Klein, S. (2023). Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants. Colorants, 2(4), 632-653. https://doi.org/10.3390/colorants2040033

Two of the most significant cases of extant 16th-century featherwork from Mexico are the so-called Moctezuma’s headdress and the Ahuizotl shield. While the feathers used in these artworks exhibit lightfast colors, their assembly comprises mainly orga... Read More about Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants.

Deep Impact (2023)
Journal Article
Parraman, C. (2023). Deep Impact. Imprint Magazine, 58(1), 2

At the 12th IMPACT multidisciplinary printmaking conference in Bristol, The Printmakers’ Voice, artists, practitioners, academics, technologists and curators came together to listen to each other’s voices, share and discuss themes, view new works of... Read More about Deep Impact.

Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications (2022)
Journal Article
Islam, M. R., Afroj, S., Beach, C., Islam, M. H., Parraman, C., Abdelkader, A., …Karim, N. (2022). Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications. iScience, 25(3), Article 103945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.103945

Wearable e-textiles have gained huge tractions due to their potential for non-invasive health monitoring. However, manufacturing of multifunctional wearable e-textiles remains challenging, due to poor performance, comfortability, scalability, and cos... Read More about Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications.

The Amber Project: A survey of methods and inks for the reproduction of the color of translucent objects (2022)
Journal Article
Trujillo-Vazquez, A., Fuller, H., Klein, S., & Parraman, C. (2022). The Amber Project: A survey of methods and inks for the reproduction of the color of translucent objects. Applied Sciences, 12(2), Article 793. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12020793

Unlike regular pigments based on selective light absorption, the so-called “effect pigments” are based on the phenomena of structural color, or selective reflectance. Structural color has appealing aesthetic qualities, such as angle-dependent hue, an... Read More about The Amber Project: A survey of methods and inks for the reproduction of the color of translucent objects.

Printing the light (2021)
Journal Article
Parraman, C., & Klein, S. (2021). Printing the light. Coloration Technology, 137(1), 86-89. https://doi.org/10.1111/cote.12523

This paper explores the relationship between additive and subtractive mixing for colour printing. Using Spectraval mica pigments (Merck)—marketed as RGB pigments—colour is generated by selective reflection and prints are based on additive colour mixi... Read More about Printing the light.

Retrieving the ancient colours: Artistic practice as a tool for heritage reconstruction (2020)
Journal Article
Vazquez, A. T., Klein, S., Calvet, X. A., & Parraman, C. (2020). Retrieving the ancient colours: Artistic practice as a tool for heritage reconstruction. Color and Imaging Conference, 2020(28), 282-287. https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2169-2629.2020.28.45

The frieze of the Palace of the stuccoes, dated between the 5 th and 6 th century BC, was a polychrome Maya relief discovered in the 1907 in Yucatán, Mexico. It was documented in watercolours and hand tinted photographs by Adela Breton. After years o... Read More about Retrieving the ancient colours: Artistic practice as a tool for heritage reconstruction.

Black to Black (2018)
Journal Article
Parraman, C. (2018). Black to Black. Printmaking Today, 27(108), 32-33

A technical review of specialist black printmaking papers, where to find them and how to use them.

The material image: Artists’ approaches to reproducing texture in art (2016)
Journal Article
Parraman, C. (2016). The material image: Artists’ approaches to reproducing texture in art. International Journal of Arts Theory and History, 11(4), 33-44

Since the introduction of computers, there has been a desire to improve the appearance of computer-generated objects in virtual spaces and to display the objects within complex scenes exactly as they appear in reality. This is a straightforward proce... Read More about The material image: Artists’ approaches to reproducing texture in art.

Vector driven 2.5D printing with non-photorealistic rendering (2016)
Journal Article
O'Dowd, P., Parraman, C., & Harding, M. (2016). Vector driven 2.5D printing with non-photorealistic rendering. https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2016.20.COLOR-343

This paper documents the development of a low-cost 2.5D printing machine. The machine is being developed specifically to consistently print combined colour and texture on to 2D surfaces. The proposal is not so much to produce a painting machine in em... Read More about Vector driven 2.5D printing with non-photorealistic rendering.

How red is Cadmium red? (2016)
Journal Article
Parraman, C., & Mottram, J. (2016). How red is Cadmium red?

Interest in the colour reproduction of artworks and artefacts is gaining more significance, as it is now recognised that some artefacts are too delicate to be exhibited and some important landmarks are no longer around due to damage by war or climate... Read More about How red is Cadmium red?.

An evaluation of the transferability of Munsell's colour notation methodology to modern inkjet printing technology (2015)
Journal Article
Olen, M., Geisow, A., & Parraman, C. (2015). An evaluation of the transferability of Munsell's colour notation methodology to modern inkjet printing technology. Proceedings of SPIE, 9395, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083333

© 2015 SPIE. This paper examines the transferability of the Munsell system to modern inkjet colorants and printing technology following a similar approach to his original methods. While extensive research and development has gone into establishing me... Read More about An evaluation of the transferability of Munsell's colour notation methodology to modern inkjet printing technology.

Reproducing the old masters: Applying colour mixing and painting methodologies to inkjet printing (2014)
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Parraman, C., Olen, M., & Padfield, J. (2014). Reproducing the old masters: Applying colour mixing and painting methodologies to inkjet printing. Proceedings of SPIE, 9015, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2040647

This research investigates multi-channel inkjet printing methods, which deviate from standard colour management workflows by reflecting on art historical processes, including the construction of colour in old master works, to reproduce specific colou... Read More about Reproducing the old masters: Applying colour mixing and painting methodologies to inkjet printing.

Reflectance, illumination, and appearance in color constancy (2014)
Journal Article
McCann, J. J., Parraman, C., & Rizzi, A. (2014). Reflectance, illumination, and appearance in color constancy. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00005

We studied color constancy using a pair of identical 3-D Color Mondrian displays. We viewed one 3-D Mondrian in nearly uniform illumination, and the other in directional, nonuniform illumination. We used the three dimensional structures to modulate t... Read More about Reflectance, illumination, and appearance in color constancy.

The visual appearance and surface texture of materials according to the old masters (2014)
Journal Article
Parraman, C. (2014). The visual appearance and surface texture of materials according to the old masters. Proceedings of SPIE, 9018, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2041216

Primary components in the colour reproduction of textured materials are firstly, the accurate rendering of the appearance of texture, and secondly the ability to print a surface topology that moves towards 2.5D printing. However, in order to render s... Read More about The visual appearance and surface texture of materials according to the old masters.

An investigation into the micro surface of artworks using alternative lighting techniques (2014)
Journal Article
Parraman, C., & Tisato, F. (2014). An investigation into the micro surface of artworks using alternative lighting techniques. Proceedings of SPIE, 9018, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2041209

The objective is to create a micro-environment-an illuminated dome with a constant geometry of illumination-to undertake non invasive observation of the surface topography of artworks. The dome is attached to a stereo-microscope, which is able to gai... Read More about An investigation into the micro surface of artworks using alternative lighting techniques.