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Color Systems

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It is often said that color is three-dimensional. (This is true at least for psychophysical color and isolated psychological color.) But what is meant by the three dimensions of color? Commonly, we think of the word “dimensions” in terms of height, width, and depth, all stated in feet, meters, or other units of length. All objects have volume and occupy space; they are three-dimensional.

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Agoston, G.A. (1987). Color Systems. In: Color Theory and Its Application in Art and Design. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34734-7_8

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