A two-metric proposal to specify the color-rendering properties of light sources for retail lighting

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7784, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Freyssinier, Jean Paul ^a   Rea, Mark ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Color rendering; Gamut area index; LED; Naturalness; Saturation; Vividness

Indexed keywords

AREA INDEX; COLOR RENDERING; LED; NATURALNESS; SATURATION; VIVIDNESS;

COLOR; LIGHTING; RETAIL STORES; SALES;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 77958016180     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.863063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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