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1 Jul 2024 01:21:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Spectral locus  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 14 Mar 2017 16:18:24
Message: <58c85010$1@news.povray.org>
On 3/13/2017 4:23 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 13.03.2017 um 20:09 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>> Translator needed:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lab_color_space#CIELAB_images_in_article
>>
>> The guy I'm talking to here is German, and I don't understand what he's
>> talking about. Would someone care to translate for me? Thanks.
>
> Unfortunately he's trying to write English, so I'd have to guess as well
> -- even though I'm also German.
>
> BTW, his use of the word "remission" actually seems to be closer to the
> English use than to the German one:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remission_(spectroscopy)
>
> Whereas (according to Wikipedia) the English spectroscopy term
> encompasses both diffuse /and/ specular reflection, the corresponding
> German term ("Remission") seems to refer only to the diffuse component.
>

Do you have an idea what those images are supposed to show? Is it the 
spectral locus? I've only plotted the sRGB gamut so far (which is shaped 
like a skewed cube), not the spectral locus.


Mike


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