On 3/12/2017 9:00 AM, Stephen wrote:
> On 3/12/2017 12:42 PM, 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?
>>
>
> It is to me. ;)
> From this definition: a curve or other figure formed by all the points
> satisfying a particular equation of the relation between coordinates, or
> by a point, line, or surface moving according to mathematically defined
> conditions.
>
> A sphere fits that description. All points equidistant from the centre.
>


Okay thanks.


Mike

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