Abstract
Colorimetry is a branch of color science concerned with numerically specifying the color of physically defined stimuli such that two stimuli that look the same (under certain criteria) have identical specifications. The Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage (CIE) developed a system for the specification of color stimuli that was recommended for widespread use in 1931 and that has formed the basis of colorimetry for the last 80 years. This chapter briefly describes the development of the CIE system and explains key principles (such as additive color mixing and Grassman’s laws) upon which the system is based. Specification of color by tristimulus values is described and the importance of chromaticity diagrams is discussed.
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Westland, S. (2016). The CIE System. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14346-0_11
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