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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2012 Feb 1;29(2):A182–A187. doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.29.00A182

Table 1.

Principal axes and cone-opponent contrasts of spherical distributions in the uniform color spaces.

Color Space RMS (s.d.) Primary Secondary Primary RMS (s.d.) Secondary RMS (s.d.)
L vs. M (Rel. Cont.) S vs. LM (Rel. Cont.) Luminance (Rel. Cont.) Theta (degrees) Phi (degrees) Psi (degrees)
CIELAB Sphere 41.95 27.42 38.73 −25 −0.5 89 50.56 47.10
CIELuv Sphere 28.32 20.77 38.73 −26 −0.8 89 39.45 39.56
Munsell Sphere 32.74 25.21 43.96 −29 −1.2 89 58.08 54.93