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In the previous chapters, color has always been defined in terms of three numbers, or equivalently, a position in 3-space. But defining colors in terms of 3-space coordinates is a bit awkward: it is difficult to publish a 3-space chart in a book, for example. Is there a way to describe colors in terms not of 3-space coordinates, but of a flat, 2-space coordinate?
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Fortner, B., Meyer, T.E. (1997). Defining Colors—The CIE Color Diagram. In: Number by Colors. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1892-0_5
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