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Introduction to Color - Brown University

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CS123 | INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER GRAPHICS<br />

Tristimulus Theory<br />

Tristimulus theory does<br />

not explain subjective<br />

color perception, e.g., not<br />

many colors look like<br />

predictable mixtures of<br />

RGB (violet looks like red<br />

and blue, but what about<br />

yellow?)<br />

The luminous efficiency<br />

function on right is the<br />

sum of the three spectral<br />

response functions on the<br />

left and gives the <strong>to</strong>tal<br />

response of the eye <strong>to</strong> each<br />

wavelength<br />

Triple Cell Response Applet<br />

http://www.cs.brown.edu/explora<strong>to</strong>ries/freeSoftware<br />

/reposi<strong>to</strong>ry/edu/brown/cs/explora<strong>to</strong>ries/applets/spe<br />

ctrum/triple_cell_response_guide.html<br />

Spectral response functions<br />

l<br />

Luminous efficiency function<br />

Andries van Dam<br />

<strong>Color</strong> 46/57

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