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28 Sep 2024 18:10:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Spectral locus  
From: Stephen
Date: 12 Mar 2017 09:43:55
Message: <58c5509b$1@news.povray.org>
On 3/12/2017 1:22 PM, Mike Horvath wrote:
> 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.
>


But remember that I have to take my socks off to count past 10. :)


-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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