POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Spectral locus : Re: Spectral locus Server Time
28 Jun 2024 22:25:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Spectral locus  
From: Mr
Date: 13 Mar 2017 06:20:00
Message: <web.58c671affcc363e016086ed00@news.povray.org>
Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> 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

:-D !
I thought POVers used only binary ?


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