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Monday, June 23, 2003

Brightness matching experiment:

Using Photoshop I made six rectangles of 450 by 220 pixels. One half of each rectangele was filled with one of six colors, and the other half of the rectangle was filled with gray. A plastic tube was placed over each rectangle so the brightness of the color and gray could be compared side by side (as shown above.) The brightness of the gray section was adjusted with Photoshop's 'Lightness' control in the 'Hue and Saturation' dialog, until the brightness of the gray matched the brightness of the color. The brightness of the gray was then read with Photoshop's 'Info' tool.

In the Hue-Saturation-Luminance colorspace, the luminance parameter approximates the visual brightness of the color. The Luminance values (as calculated by Photoshop) are compared to the brightness that I estimated with my own vision:

Color RGB   est.
 bright 
 lumin. Δ
Red FF0000  53%  57%4
Yellow F6FF00  80%  95%15
Green 00FF00  62%  79%17
Cyan 0087F9  56%  62%6
Blue 0000FF  46%  51%5
Magenta FF0081  48%  52%4

These data are illustrated by the following graph:

In the top portion, my estimated brightness is plotted with blue circles and the calculated luminance values are plotted with red triangles. In the bottom portion, the delta value - the difference between the luminance of the color and my estimated matching gray brightness - is plotted with black Xs. The Y axis is percent.

Notice the close agreement between brightness and luminance for red, cyan, blue and magenta. On the other hand, my estimates for yellow and green are dimmer than their luminance would predict. This is consistant with deuteranopic colorblindness, which I have been aware of since second grade.

Here are some links:

Ishihara color vision test
Vischeck colorblindness simulation software

Visually harmonius color mixing software
Additive and subtractive color mixing

Color space geometry explained
Jentronics color space conversion software

And, as promised, tetrachromatic mutant women.

Next: Opponents, rods and Goethe's hypothesis.

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