Keyword: «aerial perspective»

Color plays a significant role in developing architectural concepts of color schemes for city ensembles and separate buildings. Therefore it seems useful to introduce students majoring in civil engineering to the basics of color science and with its physics component in particular. The author considers objective and subjective features of color and discusses a model of color sensations formation which includes light source, an observed object, and a visual system of a human being. The paper deals with some factors that affect the color image quality of the observed object and suggests its physical interpretation. Some physiological aspects of color vision are also considered.