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Chapter 6<br />

Experimental Results<br />

6.1 Introducti<strong>on</strong><br />

The acquired diffuse reflectance data forms a multi-dimensi<strong>on</strong>al space, where the<br />

desired spectrum is dependent <strong>on</strong> the pigment, binding <strong>media</strong>, <strong>and</strong> <strong>time</strong> interval.<br />

Analyzing the data of such a large hypergraph is difficult <strong>and</strong> different ways of<br />

presenting the data are covered in this secti<strong>on</strong>.<br />

6.1.1 Effect of binding <strong>media</strong><br />

To study the effect of the binding <strong>media</strong> <strong>on</strong> a pigment in a paint soluti<strong>on</strong>, a specific<br />

<strong>time</strong> <strong>and</strong> pigment are held c<strong>on</strong>stant. This allows for direct comparis<strong>on</strong> between<br />

paint samples of different binders. Given this situati<strong>on</strong>, there are eight spectral<br />

reflectance curves for a given pigment-<strong>time</strong> combinati<strong>on</strong> (since there are eight<br />

different binders). Plotted against each other, this allows for comparis<strong>on</strong>s of how<br />

the binder affects the absorpti<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> scattering of wavelengths of light of a paint<br />

sample. These changes of light behavior are important to how we perceive color<br />

differences. As seen in Chapter 3, any change in the reflectance spectra will incite<br />

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