CIELUV
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In colorimetry, the CIE 1976 '''L*, u*, v* color space, commonly known by its abbreviation CIELUV''', is a color space adopted by the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) in 1976, as a simple-to-compute transformation of the 1931 CIE XYZ color space, which attempted perceptual uniformity. It is extensively used for applications such as computer graphics which deal with colored lights. Although additive mixtures of different colored lights will fall on a line in CIELUV's uniform chromaticity diagram (called the CIE 1976 UCS), such additive mixtures will not, contrary to popular belief
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9 sectionsContents
- Historical background
- XYZ → CIELUV and CIELUV → XYZ conversions
- The forward transformation
- The reverse transformation
- Cylindrical representation (CIELCh)
- Color and hue difference
- See also
- References
- External links
In colorimetry, the CIE 1976 '''L*, u*, v* color space, commonly known by its abbreviation CIELUV''', is a color space adopted by the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) in 1976, as a simple-to-compute transformation of the 1931 CIE XYZ color space, which attempted perceptual uniformity. It is extensively used for applications such as computer graphics which deal with colored lights. Although additive mixtures of different colored lights will fall on a line in CIELUV's uniform chromaticity diagram (called the CIE 1976 UCS), such additive mixtures will not, contrary to popular belief, fall in the midpoint between the chromaticities of the two colors mixed, unless they both have the same lightness.
==Historical background==