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CIE Color System

The CIE system characterizes colors using two color coordinates, x and y, which specify a point on the chromaticity diagram based on the spectral power distribution of light from a colored object. The diagram maps human color perception and forms the boundary of all perceivable hues. While no display can show the full range of human color vision, the CIE diagram provides a framework for investigating color with approximations of color names assigned to regions.

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CIE Color System

The CIE system characterizes colors using two color coordinates, x and y, which specify a point on the chromaticity diagram based on the spectral power distribution of light from a colored object. The diagram maps human color perception and forms the boundary of all perceivable hues. While no display can show the full range of human color vision, the CIE diagram provides a framework for investigating color with approximations of color names assigned to regions.

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The C.I.E.

Color Space
The CIE system characterizes colors by a luminance parameter Y and two color coordinates x and y which specify the point on the chromaticity diagram. This system offers more precision in color measurement than do the Munsell and Ostwald systems because the Index parameters are based on the spectral power CIE concepts distribution (SPD) of the light emitted from a Color colored object and are measurement factored by sensitivity concepts curves which have been measured for the human eye. Based on the fact that the human eye has three different types of color sensitive cones, the response of the eye is best described in terms of three "tristimulus values". However, once this is accomplished, it is found that any color can be expressed in terms of the two color coordinates x and y. The colors which can be matched by combining a given set of three primary colors (such as the blue, green,a nd red of a color television screen) are represented on the chromaticity diagram by a triangle joining the coordinates for the three colors. HyperPhysics***** Light and Vision
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The C.I.E. Chromaticity Diagram


The diagram at left represents the the mapping of human color perception in terms of two CIE parameters x and y. The spectral colors are distributed around the edge of the "color space" as shown, and that outline Index includes all of the perceived hues and provides a framework for investigating CIE concepts color. Color The diagram given here is measurement associated with the 1931 concepts CIE standard. Revisions were made in 1960 and 1976, but the 1931 version remains the most widely used version. The diagram at lower left is a rough rendering of the 1931 CIE colors on the chromaticity diagram. Diagram with annotation Associate with colors

The 1976 CIE Chromaticity Diagram HyperPhysics***** Light and Vision Go Back

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The C.I.E. Chromaticity Diagram


On the CIE chromaticity diagram at left, some CIE concepts annotation is made about the significance of different Color parts of the diagram. The measurement boundary represents concepts maximum saturation for the spectral colors, and the diagram forms the boundary of all perceivable hues. Calculation of coordinates HyperPhysics***** Light and Vision Go Back Index

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Approximate colors can be assigned to areas on the CIE Chromaticity Diagram. These are rough categories, and not to be taken as precise statements of color. The boundaries and the color names are adapted from Brand Fortner, "Number by Color", Part 5, SciTech Journal 6, p32, May/June 1996.

Color name Red

Red Green Blue 191 27 220 119 204 184 224 231 233 214 209 163 162 164 175 138 121 102 85 64 208 35 65 255 75 208 51 162 29 0 94 0 4 60 71 121 190 199 202 191 177 158 143 219 132 136 255 Index CIE concepts Color measurement concepts

Pink 245 Any attempt to depict the gamut of human color vision on a computer Reddish 216 monitor must be accompanied by orange numerous qualifications and exceptions. Orange In the first place, you cannot display the 240 pink range of human color perception on an RGB monitor - the gamut of normal Orange 228 human vision covers the entire CIE Yellowish diagram while the gamut of an RGB 231 orange monitor can be displayed as a triangular Yellow 234 region within the CIE diagram. Another qualification is that the hue and Greenish 235 saturation associated with a given color yellow name can vary over a considerable Yellow range. Add to that the variations with 185 green different kinds of display monitors, and you rightly conclude that an accurate Yellowish 170 rendition is impossible. With all those green excuses, however, it still might be 0 instructive to provide a rough idea of the Green regions of the CIE Diagram associated Bluish 24 with common color names. green Bluegreen 95 The display here was created by choosing representative RGB values for Greenish 110 the color regions from a rendition of the blue 1976 CIE Chromaticity Diagram Blue 92 provided by Photo Research, Inc. Note that one representative value in about Purplish 88 the middle of the hue and saturation blue ranges was chosen for each section of Bluish the diagram. The point chosen was just a 92 purple visual judgment of a representative color Purple 246 in the range. The RGB values obtained are listed in the table at right. A Reddish 196 different observer would likely have purple chosen different points to represent the Purplish color names, but at least these values 243 pink might provide a starting point for preferred variations. Red 175 purple One characteristic of the commonly Purplish used 1931 CIE Chromaticity Diagram 209 red that is evident even from this crude portrayal is that the green takes up far White 255 too much of the landscape compared to the number of visually different colors in the region. That was one of the shortcomings that the 1960 and 1976 revisions sought to address. Calculation of coordinates

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