Perales, Esther, Mora Estevan, Teresa, Viqueira, Valentín, Fez Saiz, Dolores de, Gilabert Pérez, Eduardo, Martínez-Verdú, Francisco M.
A new algorithm for calculating the MacAdam limits for any luminance factor, hue angle and illuminant
PERALES ROMERO, Esther, et al. "A new algorithm for calculating the MacAdam limits for any luminance factor, hue angle and illuminant". En: 10th Congress of the International Colour Association : 8-13 May 2005, Granada, Spain : proceedings book / Juan L. Nieves and Javier Hernández-Andrés, editors. Granada : AIC, International Colour Association; SEDO, Sociedad Española de Optica; Comité Español de Color, 2005. ISBN 84-609-5164-2, pp. 737-740
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/955
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ISBN: 84-609-5164-2
Abstract: 
The MacAdam limits are the frontier of the human colour solid in any colour space. The
colour stimuli associated with this frontier are the optimal colours studied by D.L. MacAdam in 1935.
Since then, the optimal colours have been calculated and plotted in several CIE colour spaces only
under the A, C, D65 and E illuminants with a limited range of the luminance factor Y (typically, from
10 to 95 % at 10 % steps). We show a new algorithm for systematically searching the optimal colours
for any illuminant (F2, F7, F11, etc) and luminance factor (between 0 and 100 %). With these
chromatic data we can graph the colour solid in CIELAB colour space at constant lightness and hue
angle planes for any illuminant or even light source.
Keywords:MacAdam limits, Optimal colours, Luminance factor, Hue angle, Illuminant
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