Color Coding / Color

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Definition(s)

  • Color:
  • Color Coding: The typical human eye can distinguish over 10,000 different colors. We use color everyday to identify, classify and determine the state of objects around us. In addition to natural colors, we use color codes for displaying color on the Computer. That is what Color Coding is used for.


History

Examples for Color Coding

RGB

3D-vector space of the RGB-color model
RGB-images contain 3 monochrome images,
the first being fed to the red electron gun of the shadow mask color CRT,
the second into the green and the third into the blue gun


CMY und CMYK

CMY-image
In case of an ink jet printer the upper right image is drawn using cyan ink,
the lower left using magenta and the lower right using yellow ink


YIQ and YUV

HLS, HSV, HVC

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