Colour & Colour Management
4 terms
Metamerism
Colour & Colour Management
The phenomenon in which two samples match under one light source but differ visibly under another.
Mired
Colour & Colour Management
mired
A unit of reciprocal colour temperature that makes colour shifts uniform in perceptual terms, used to specify filters and gels.
mired = 1,000,000 / K
Mixed Lighting
Colour & Colour Management
K
A scene illuminated by two or more sources of different colour temperature, which cannot all be neutralised at once.
Monitor Calibration
Colour & Colour Management
K, cd/m², gamma
Measuring a display with an instrument and building a profile so its output matches known standards for white point, brightness and tone response.