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From: maguire@cs.columbia.edu (Gerald Q. Maguire)
Subject: Re: Perceptually equidistant color scale
In-Reply-To: lipman@dtrc.dt.navy.mil's message of 26 Mar 91 21:05:04 GMT
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Date: 27 Mar 91 17:41:35


See the paper in the SPIE proceedings (and several other places)
 about ~1980 by Steve Pizer of the Univ. of North Carolina on
generating good color scales. He basically does a psychophysics
experiment for each user and determine thes optimal color scale for
each user + monitor combination. It turns out that this gives the
highest amount of image transfer per pixel - as you have measured the
just-noticeable color difference for the image chain in question.

He has been doing these sorts of measurements for more than a decade -
so you might want to contact him: smp@cs.unc.edu
Chip