Abstract
Colorimetry extends the measurement of light to distinguish hue and saturation as well as photometric brightness, always in relation to a standard eye. The general-purpose CIE colour spaces are defined. The sRGB colour space is specifically designed for computer displays, and the YMCK colour space for printing. Examples and conversions between colour spaces are given.
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Albert Henry Munsell (1858–1918), artist and teacher at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932), Professor of Physical Chemistry, Leipzig University.
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By Thomas Young around 1800; James Clerk Maxwell around 1850 onwards; Hermann Helmholtz around 1850 onwards.
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By William David Wright at Imperial College, London and independently John Guild at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington.
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In medieval music, gamma ut was the lowest note of the scale. Later, gamut came to mean the entire musical scale, and later still the whole of any spread.
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Additive colour mixing can be represented as weights and distances in a barycentric system, as first formulated in 1861 by Hermann Gunther Grassmann (1809–1877), schoolteacher in Stettin, recognized as a philologist, but not as a mathematician until after his death. Maxwell made great use of such a system, and a barycentric additive mixing diagram is often called a Maxwell triangle.
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Based on work by E.Q. Adams in 1942 and R.S. Hunter in 1948.
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Parkin, A. (2016). Colorimetry. In: Digital Imaging Primer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85619-1_16
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