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The concept of correlated colour temperature revisited
Author(s) -
Borbély Ákos,
Sámson Árpád,
Schanda János
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
color research and application
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1520-6378
pISSN - 0361-2317
DOI - 10.1002/col.1065
Subject(s) - chromaticity , equidistant , diagram , colour difference , alphabet , optics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , physics , computer science , geometry , statistics , linguistics , philosophy
Correlated colour temperature is a one‐dimensional description of the colour of near‐white light sources. The concept relates the numerical value to a visual observation of smallest colour difference between the chromaticity of the test source and of a point lying on the Planckian locus. In practice, chromaticity difference on a uniform chromaticity scale diagram is used. Since the introduction of the CIELUV and CIELAB spaces, it has been questioned whether the calculations should be done on the traditional u , v diagram, or by using a more equidistant colour space. Based on our visual experiments, we can state that the u , v diagram‐based calculation is adequate to describe the correlated colour temperature of a source. The individual scatter of observations is so large that a visual definition has no practical reality. Thus, we recommend changing the definition of correlated colour temperature from a visual definition to a mathematical one and dropping any reference to visual investigations. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Col Res Appl, 26, 450–457, 2001