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CIE Chromaticity Diagram

Often it is convenient to work in a 2D color space.

This is commonly done by projecting the 3D color space onto the plane X+Y+Z=1, yielding a CIE chromaticity diagram.

The projection is defined as:

Giving one of the following chromaticity diagram.

 

 


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