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• Fluorescent Fridays: From Plant to Pattern: Exploring Natural Fashion Colors with Almonds and Indigo

  • When
    16 Oct 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    virtual
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    18 registrants

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  WHO	University students and faculty
  WHEN	Friday, October 16, 12-1pm EST

  From Plant to Pattern: Exploring Natural Fashion Colors with Almonds and Indigo

  Speakers: Dr. Jiangning Che and students from the Department of Apparel Merchandising & Management, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

  Projects to be presented: 

  Project 1: Almond Waste for Textile Coloration:  This study investigated the use of almond byproducts as an agricultural waste resource for innovative and sustainable textile coloration. Overall, the findings highlight the potential of almond byproducts as an innovative, eco-friendly natural dye source that supports agricultural waste valorization while providing functional performance for sustainable textile applications.

  Project 2: From Plant to Pattern: Exploring the Indigo Dyeing and Fashion Design Process: The micro-internship project explores the complete “plant-to-pattern” lifecycle of indigo, emphasizing environmental sustainability, craftsmanship, and experiential learning. The initiative demonstrates how natural dyeing can bridge agriculture, design, and manufacturing while fostering creativity, technical skills, and environmental stewardship within contemporary apparel and textile practices.

  
  

  Dr Jiagning Che (left) and Apparel Merchandising and Management Students (left to right) Myunggyo (Emily) Yu, Johan Tsai, Randi L. Montanez 
  

  Jiangning Che is a professor in the Department of Apparel Merchandising and
  Management at Cal Poly Pomona. He earned his Ph.D. in Textile Coloration and brings more than 10 years of industry experience in the textile and apparel sector before joining Cal Poly Pomona as an Assistant Professor in 2013. His expertise includes color science, textile coloration, and industrial color applications in textiles and apparel. Dr. Che's research focuses on color science, sustainable textile coloration, and the development of natural dyes from plant-based resources for textile applications.

  
  

  

  FLUORESCENT FRIDAYS is a platform for university students from all disciplines to network with color professionals and fellow students, and to explore cutting-edge information about color’s role in our lives and applications in the world. 

  Global Student Chapter: The long range goal is to build a global student chapter that positions color as a multidimensional STEAM model (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math), sharing up-to-date color research by scientists, artists, designers, industry professionals, and university students.21st century color communication requires a commitment to building bridges for sharing resources, cultivating mentors, and creating new opportunities. With up-to-date information and useful tools, students become the next generation of leaders in ever-evolving color related disciplines.

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• Cutting Edge Lectures - Ren Ng presents: A tale of three novel colors

  • When
    17 Nov 2026
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    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    virtual

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  A tale of three novel colors: olo, keef and litz

  This talk will be about research into novel human color perception.  We showed human subjects a novel color, olo, by individually stimulating thousands of cells on the retina with laser microdoses, using a system we call Oz Vision.  Olo corresponds to targeting only M cone cells and not L or S cones, which never happens in natural vision.  Olo appears blue-green of unprecedented saturation.  In theory, there are other novel colors that could not be as easily described. This talk will present the mathematical theory of two such tetrachromatic colors, keef and litz, and work towards prototyping them in the real world.

  Ren Ng is a professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.  His research interests are in imaging, graphics, human and computer vision.  Research contributions include the novel color olo produced by the Oz Vision system, and the volumetric scene inference method NeRF. Before Berkeley, Ren was founder and CEO of Lytro, Inc., which commercialized his Ph.D. research on light field cameras. Ren completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University, and received the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.  Ren has received the Jim and Donna Gray Faculty Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Sloan Research Fellowship, IS&T Image Engineering Innovation Award, R.I.T.'s Imaging Hall of Fame, the Selwyn Award from the Royal Photographic Society, MIT Tech Review's TR35 and Entrepreneur of the Year, Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business, and is a Kavli Fellow and Optica Fellow.

  
  

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