As a tribute to Claudio Oleari (1944‐2018), in this article we remember some of his ideas about the role of physics and engineering in modern colour science. In particular, we consider his emphasis on the strong content of the work carried out during 1947‐1974 by the Committee on Uniform Scales of the Optical Society of America. Oleari considered the Optical Society of America Uniform Color Scales system a very useful basis for new developments in colour science, including approximately uniform colour spaces, colour difference formulae and chromatic adaptation transforms. Papers published by Oleari and colleagues constitute an original alternative approach to the current generalised assumption of CIELAB made by most researchers and practitioners of colour science. We should seek a deeper understanding of colour vision to allow the development of new colour spaces, in which colour appearance could be more neatly expressed.

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回顾美国光学学会统一色标系统：过去，现在和未来的挑战

为向克劳迪奥·奥莱里（Claudio Oleari，1944-2018年）致敬，在本文中，我们记得他关于物理学和工程学在现代色彩科学中的作用的一些观点。特别是，我们认为他强调了1947年至1974年美国光学学会均匀尺委员会所做工作的强大内容。Oleari认为美国光学学会统一色标系统是色彩科学新发展的非常有用的基础，包括近似均匀的色彩空间，色差公式和色适应转换。Oleari及其同事发表的论文构成了大多数色彩科学研究者和实践者对CIELAB当前普遍假设的替代方法。