POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Spectral locus : Re: Spectral locus Server Time
28 Sep 2024 18:11:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Spectral locus  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 12 Mar 2017 08:44:27
Message: <58c542ab$1@news.povray.org>
On 3/12/2017 8:42 AM, Mike Horvath wrote:
> On Wikipedia it says, "In color spaces which include all, or most
> spectral colors, they form a part of boundary of the set of all real
> colors. If luminance is counted, then spectral colors form a surface,
> otherwise their locus is a curve in a two-dimensional chromaticity space."
>
> Is it acceptable to use the term "locus" to refer to a surface as well
> as a curve? Or is does "locus" only refer to curves?
>
>
> Mike


Merriam-Webster says a locus is, "the set of all points whose location 
is determined by stated conditions". It doesn't specify whether the term 
refers only to curves and not to surfaces. Still not 100% sure though.


Mike


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