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Subject: Re: Luminance from RGB
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Date: 14 Nov 88 14:39:57 GMT
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From article <8811132229.AA02726@dawn.steinmetz.GE.COM>, by stpeters@dawn.UUCP:

" 
" If you had a red phosphor that emitted primarily in two spectral peaks
" and the proportional distribution between the peaks depended on the
" excitation, you could perceive the emission from the red phosphor as
" being blue or green at some intensities.  (The emission would have to
" be confined virtually entirely to the peaks, whereas real phosphors
" emit a continuous background as well as peaks, so such a phosphor
" would be very unlikely.)

It might also have to part of a high resolution picture of a
natural scene, if I recall Land's experiments correctly.  I noticed
that you used the term 'scene' above the quoted passage.

	Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu