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Re: Neutral grey under different lighting
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Re: Neutral grey under different lighting


  • Subject: Re: Neutral grey under different lighting
  • From: Richard Wagner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:27:50 -0700

Andrew,

If you have one set of colored objects that you are talking about (e.g., pigments or dyes), you can't have "metameric failure" since there is no possibility of "metamerism" in the first place. I think the expression "metameric failure" is almost as frequently misused as metamerism.

--Rich Wagner

On Sep 3, 2007, at 12:03 PM, email@hidden wrote:


On 9/3/07 12:47 AM, "Marco Ugolini" wrote:

*Metamerism* is the effect whereby *two* colored objects built with colorants
of different spectra appear to match one another colorimetrically under a
given illuminant. It's a *positive* effect, not one that should be avoided.
Without metamerism, the only way to match a target color would be to create it
with exactly the same pigments and materials.

Very true. Its both our friend and our enemy. A metameric failure is one
most users talk about and is also possible. Color Inconsistency as you
discuss is also referred to as a metameric failure and I think that term is
acceptable.


Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/

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