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COLOUR HEXAGON [2 records]

Record 1 1996-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inks and Colour Reproduction (Graphic Arts)
OBS

The colour hexagon is a diagram developed by the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation for plotting data relative to colour (i.e. hue and colour strength) in order to determine the suitability of inks for colour reproduction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Encres et couleurs (Industrie graphique)
OBS

L'hexagone chromatique donne un moyen simple d'exprimer visuellement l'erreur de teinte et le gris des encres colorées.

OBS

L'hexagone est dérivé d'un système décrit par Evans, Manson et Brewer, dans «Principles of Color Photography». Il est utilisable sans calcul, par simple report des densités.

Spanish

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Record 2 1990-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
OBS

Justification proposed by Intergraph : no syntactic context; a part of what the right side of the color table form contains

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie

Spanish

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