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Color Perception: Opening up the Chromaticity Cone

Quantitative Methods 2013-04-02 v1

Abstract

In the XYZ color space, the subset of the tri-stimuli corresponding to spike-type (monochromatic) impingement of energy is the chromaticity cone, CC. Using a family of concentric spheres, we describe a nonlinear transformation over the CC and construct a bijection from the CC onto the flat plane. In the process, we open up the CC and view it as a chart on the plane. Because the map is a bijection, the color perception information is preserved (invariant) through the transformation. We discuss stereographic projection of the chromaticity chart and some examples.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1304.0122,
  title  = {Color Perception: Opening up the Chromaticity Cone},
  author = {Prashanth Alluvada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0122},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

20 pages, 31 figures

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