On 3/17/2017 1:07 PM, clipka wrote:
> As for whether the word "gamut" would be appropriate to describe "the
> visible spectrum", I have a hunch that you may not actually mean "the
> visible spectrum" but a related yet different concept.

This makes sense, thanks.

>
> "The visible spectrum" is not a set of colours, but rather a range of
> wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation.
>
> Even "a spectrum" (in the sense of power as a /function/ of wavelength)
> is not a colour (in the sense used in conjunction with the term "gamut",
> i.e. a particular visual stimulus), but rather /corresponds to/ a
> colour, with multiple spectra corresponding to the same colour (metamerism).
>

Good to know, thanks.


Mike

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