Re: color table conversion

[Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan <shaugan(at)esa.nascom.nasa.gov>]

Arend Sluis <sluis@physics.rutgers.edu> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> this is a bit of an arcane topic, but here goes. I would like to use the
> CIE Lab or CIE Luv color system to choose the colors that I want to load
> into the IDL color table. The conversion from either of these color
> systems to CIE XYZ is standard, the problem is the conversion from CIE
> XYZ to RGB in IDL. I found one conversion (in the procedure PSEUDO), but
> it doesn't seem to be correct, since white is not in the correct place,
> i.e. Lab = (*,0.,0.). Does anyone have any ideas how to find the correct
> conversion, or how the folks at rsinc found their XYZ->RGB
> transformation to begin with?!

Have you looked at http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~raed/image.html "and
references therein.."?

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