Abstract

In the context of motion picture and television applications, the term color appearance refers to how the picture looks, as opposed to it's measured or predicted physical characteristics. Most published studies of color reproduction problems concentrate on these physical factors. Indeed, many engineers seem to feel that color reproduction is a trivial problem-- just read a standard text on colorimetry and one has it all. Television is often cited as an example of one of the more successful applications of colorimetry. The author feels, that while application of colorimetric methods certainly played an important role in the development of television, the system works despite rather than because of "colorimetric theory".

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