How the CIE 1931 color-matching functions were derived from Wright-Guild data

Color Research and Application

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-23

  Fairman, Hugh S ^a   Brill, Michael H ^b   Hemmendinger, Henry ^a  

^a Hemmendinger Color Laboratory   (United States)

^b SARNOFF CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Alychne; Chromaticity diagram; CIE; CIE 1931 system; Color matching; Colorimetry; Primary colors; Spectrum locus; Transformation; Wright Guild data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347280532     PISSN: 03612317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6378(199702)22:1<11::AID-COL4>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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