
Rendering intent 9
Giorgianni, Edward J., and
T. E. Madden,
Digital Color Manage-
ment: Encoding Solutions
(Reading,
Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1998).
I use the term
white
to refer to
diffuse white, which I will explain on
page 83.
Examine the flowers in a garden at noon on a bright,
sunny day. Look at the same garden half an hour after
sunset. Physically, the spectra of the flowers have not
changed, except by scaling to lower luminance levels.
However, the flowers are markedly less colorful after
sunset: Colorfulness
decreases as
luminance decreases.
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