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COLOR SPACES FOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS by George H. Joblove and Donald Greenberg Program of Computer Graphics Cornell University ABSTRACT 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. KEYWORDS: Computer Graphics, Color, COlor Displays, Color Space, Image Synthesis COMPUTING REVIEWS CLASSIFICATION: 8.2 Introduction The normal human visual system is comprised of three lute power level (or height of the distribution) components which produce color sensation. Full- determines what is perceived as the intensity. Two color display devices used in computer graphics take kinds of light-sensitive bodies in the retina, rods advantage of this phenomenon and produce their en- and cones, send signals to the brain. The rods tire range of color simply by mixing t