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An introduction to the study of colour vision (1915)

Parsons, John Herbert, Sir, 1868-1957 · Cambridge University Press · leaf 247

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uations for W, in each case mixing three lights from different parts of the spectrum in suitable proportions. By eliminating W from each of these equations he obtained the sensation- values of 14 positions in the spectrum in terms of the sensation-values of the three standard colours, R, G, B. Fig.… … Red. Blue. Fig. 58. Clerk-Maxwell's sensation curves. The dotted line is the algebraical sura of the ordinates at each point ; it is not a true luminosity curve. Abscissae, wave- lengths of the prismatic spectrum of sunlight ; ordinates, arbitrary scale. (Clerk- Maxwell.) Papers followed by J. J.…

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