DEC colours

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Mon Nov 15 14:07:25 CST 2004


> The thing that ticks me about Pantone, Behr, Sherman Williams or
> whatever is that they're proprietary systems and RGB is the "Open
> Source" solution, going back to basic principles and should be
> communicable to the proprietary mixer systems, but not the reverse.

RGB isn't enough - not everyone's visual system's response can be
modeled accurately by RGB.  (Some people have colour receptors whose
response peaks are at nonstandard frequencies; a few people even have
more than three different colour receptors.)

The only really comprehensive way would be to give the full
frequency-vs-albedo curve.

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