Color perception
IntarsiaCo@aol.com (Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:24:29 PST)

In a message dated 1/23/2004 5:03:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jwaddick@kc.rr.com writes:
It is fairly amazing to confirm a specific color using the
charts and then view that same color independent of the sample. They
can very different from each other.

Printers wrestle with this metamerism problem all the time. Two objects made
from two different pigments may look the same under one light source, but
different under another light source. Happens all the time to interior
decorators.

Mark Mazer
Intarsia Ltd.
Gaylordsville, Connecticut 06755-0142
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