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COULEUR PURE [1 record]

Record 1 1998-03-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
  • Pigments and Colours (Arts)
CONT

A full colour has ... a spectral luminance factor curve ... with two complementary wavelengths limiting the range where [the spectral luminance factor] equals 1.

Key term(s)
  • full color

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
  • Pigments et couleurs (Arts)
DEF

Dans la classification des couleurs d'Ostwald, les couleurs pures sont conventionnellement obtenues à partir de la source C à l'aide de filtres comportant une bande centrale ou parfaitement transparente ou parfaitement absorbante limitée par deux longueurs d'onde complémentaires, les bandes marginales étant corrélativement ou totalement absorbantes ou parfaitement transparentes. [Définition normalisée par l'AFNOR.]

OBS

couleur pure : terme normalisé par l'AFNOR.

Spanish

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