Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 2 #645 - 16 msgs
Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 2 #645 - 16 msgs
- Subject: Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 2 #645 - 16 msgs
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:45:31 EST
In a message dated 11/27/01 3:19:03 PM, email@hidden
writes:
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So - now there are some numbers to work with.
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If a photospectrophotometer is in a bright room and measures a swatch
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it would read the same numbers for that swatch in a dark room.
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Is that correct? - because the color IS the same whereever it is.
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Now -
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If a human views these two situations -
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we would perceive the same swatch as "different" colors,
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because of the brightness factor.
The proper analogy would include a spectro with different levels of built in
illumination, which would distinguish fewer colors accurately as the
illuminant became fainter, rather as our eye would.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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