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mark-ryesterday at 12:57 PM1 replyview on HN

There's another problem nobody ever talks about. The way our RGB monitors work, some colors will be more intense than others at the same brightness. A red or blue patch will only emit half as many photons as a magenta patch, because magenta includes both red and blue. The non-linear response of the eye helps here, but not completely.


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WithinReasonyesterday at 1:37 PM

This is the main reason why CIELAB was developed