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Chromaticity
Chromaticity is an objective specification of the quality of a color
regardless of its luminance. Chromaticity consists of two independent
parameters, often specified as hue (h) and colorfulness (s), where the
latter is alternatively called saturation, chroma, intensity,[1] or excitation
purity.[2][3] This number of parameters follows from trichromacy of vision
of most humans, which is assumed by most models in color science.
Contents
1 Quantitative description
2 See also
3 References
4 External links The CIE 1931 xy chromaticity space, also
showing the chromaticities of black-body
light sources of various temperatures,
and lines of constant correlated color
Quantitative description temperature
In color science, the white point of an illuminant or of a display is a
neutral reference characterized by a chromaticity; all other chromaticities
may be defined in relation to this reference using polar coordinates. The hue is the angular component, and the purity is
the radial component, normalized by the maximum radius for that hue.
Purity is roughly equivalent to the term "saturation" in the HSV color model. The property "hue" is as used in general color
theory and in specific color models such as HSV and HSL color spaces, though it is more perceptually uniform in color
models such as Munsell, CIELAB or CIECAM02.
Some color spaces separate the three dimensions of color into one luminance dimension and a pair of chromaticity
dimensions. For example, the white point of an sRGB display is an x, y chromaticity of (0.3127, 0.3290), where x and y
coordinates are used in the xyY space.
(u′, v′), the chromaticity in CIELUV, These pairs determine a chromaticity
is a fairly perceptually uniform as affine coordinates on a triangle in a
presentation of the chromaticity as
2D-space, which contains all possible
(another than in CIE 1931) planar
Euclidean shape. This presentation chromaticities. These x and y are used
is a projective transformation of the because of simplicity of expression in
CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram CIE 1931 (see below) and have no
above.
inherent advantage. Other coordinate
systems on the same X-Y-Z triangle,
or other color triangles, can be used.
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On the other hand, some color spaces
such as RGB and XYZ do not separate
out chromaticity, but chromaticity is
defined by a mapping that normalizes
out intensity, and its coordinates,
such as r and g or x and y, can be
calculated through the division
X
operation, such as x = X+Y+Z
, and
so on.
The xyY space is a cross between the
CIE XYZ and its normalized
chromaticity coordinates xyz, such that the luminance Y is preserved and augmented with just the required two
chromaticity dimensions.[4]
See also
CIE xyY (chromaticity diagram)
Chrominance
rg chromaticity
References
1. In modern terminology the word "intensity" may refer to lightness, not to colorfulness.
2. Emil Wolf (1961). Progress in Optics ([Link]
y&dq=chromaticity+hue+purity&pgis=1). North Holland Pub. Co.
3. Leslie D. Stroebel, Richard D. Zakia (1993). The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography ([Link]
s?id=CU7-2ZLGFpYC&pg=PA124&dq=chromaticity+hue+saturation+chroma+colorfulness+purity). Focal Press.
ISBN 0-240-51417-3.
4. Charles A. Poynton (2003). Digital Video and HDTV: Algorithms and Interfaces ([Link]
a1lcAwgvq4C&pg=RA1-PA219&dq=chromaticity+xyy#PRA1-PA219,M1). Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 1-55860-792-7.
External links
Stanford University CS 178 interactive Flash demo ([Link]
[Link]) explaining chromaticity diagrams.
Chromaticity diagrams and LED binning explained ([Link]
articles/), Edaphic Scientific Knowledge Base
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