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Color spaces for computer graphics

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George H. Joblove,

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ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Volume 12, Issue 3

Pages 20 - 25

https://doi.org/10.1145/965139.807362

Published: 23 August 1978 Publication History

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Normal human color perception is a product of three independent sensory systems. By mirroring this mechanism, full-color display devices create colors as mixtures of three primaries. Any displayable color can be described by the corresponding values of these primaries. Frequently it is more convenient to define various other color spaces, or coordinate systems, for color representation or manipulation. Several such color spaces are presented which are suitable for applications involving user specification of color, along with the defining equations and illustrations. The use of special color spaces for particular kinds of color computations is discussed.

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Color spaces for computer graphics
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
      1. Texturing
    2. Rendering

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ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Volume 12, Issue 3

August 1978

337 pages

ISSN:0097-8930

DOI:10.1145/965139

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SIGGRAPH '78: Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
August 1978
363 pages
ISBN:9781450379083
DOI:10.1145/800248
Chairmen:
S. H. Chasen,
R. L. Phillips

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