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Figure 62: A Mathematica generated plot <strong>of</strong> the domain <strong>of</strong> valid XYZ values in<br />

the first octant.<br />

8.1.2 CIE XYZ Rendering<br />

A seemingly logical alternative that has been infrequently used in practice is<br />

to per<strong>for</strong>m those computations directly in XYZ space [GJB80][Gla95][WS00],<br />

thereby eliminating any gamut restrictions from the rendering process. Figure 62<br />

shows a three-dimensional representation <strong>of</strong> XYZ space, which <strong>for</strong>ms a closed<br />

subspace <strong>of</strong> the first octant (X, Y, Z ≥ 0). The parameter lines follow different<br />

contours <strong>for</strong> the curved mantle section and the magenta plane, since these were<br />

done using different Mathematica plots which were joined together afterwards. A<br />

better visualization <strong>of</strong> this limit surface is shown in figure 63. This figure shows<br />

the same shape as figure 62. The geometrical data <strong>for</strong> the limit surface was expor-<br />

ted from Mathematica to 3D Studio Max [3dS06] and rendered using false-color<br />

shading, transparency and cutting planes which reveal the chromaticity-diagram<br />

shaped cross-section <strong>of</strong> the subspace.<br />

The key argument in favour <strong>of</strong> using XYZ space <strong>for</strong> rendering calculations is<br />

that it assigns positive values to all colors that can be perceived by humans; this<br />

property is crucial to ensure a meaningful component-wise multiplication between<br />

individual color values. Nevertheless, Ward et al. [WEV02] came to the conclu-<br />

sion that a carefully chosen RGB space yielded better results than using XYZ<br />

space. Un<strong>for</strong>tunately, the reasons <strong>for</strong> this behavior were not analyzed further.<br />

It is known and understood that multiplication between light and reflectance<br />

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