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COLOR SPACES for COMPUTER GRAPHICS by George COLOR SPACES FOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS by George H. Joblove and Donald Greenberg Program of Computer Graphics Cornell University ABSTRACT Normal human color perception is a product of three independent sensory systems. By mirroring this mechanism, full-color display devices create colors as mixtures of three primaries. Any displayable color can be described by the corresponding values of these primaries. Frequently it is more convenient to define various other color spaces, or coordinate systems, for color representation or manipulation. Several such color spaces are presented which are suitable for applications involving user specification of color, along with the defining equations and illustrations. The use of special color spaces for particular kinds of color computations is discussed. KEYWORDS: Computer Graphics, Color, COlor Displays, Color Space, Image Synthesis COMPUTING REVIEWS CLASSIFICATION: 8.2 Introduction The normal human visual system is comprised of three lute power level (or height of the distribution) components which produce color sensation. Full- determines what is perceived as the intensity. Two color display devices used in computer graphics take kinds of light-sensitive bodies in the retina, rods advantage of this phenomenon and produce their en- and cones, send signals to the brain. The rods tire range of color simply by mixing three primary function mostly in very dim light to which the colors. This paper describes the concept of color cones are insensitive. At normal light levels, space, wherein color is regarded as occupying a virtually all visual information is provided by the three-dimensional volume. One such space is inher- cones. Three types of these receptors, each sensi- ently defined by the primary colors of a display tive to different wavelengths, together are respon- system; others may be used provided that locations sible for color discrimination. The strengths of within them may ultimately be transformed to three the resulting three separate signals are interpre- proper input parameters for the display device. ted as a particular chromaticity. Although the sensitivities of the three receptors overlap, one Following a review of the principles of color, sev- is sensitive particularly in the blue area of the eral color spaces will be presented which are use- spectrum, one in the green, and one in the red. 1 ful for the purpose of communicating color specifi- cations between a computer graphics system and a Different spectral distributions can produce the user. Other color mappings which are primarily same color sensation, or receptor responses. This suitable for internal use by the graphics system phenomenon is called metamerism; "different" colors for color computations are discussed. which appear the same as a result are called meta- mers. 2 If light has a flat, even spectral distri- bution, or any other distribution that stimulates Light, Color, and Perception all three receptors equally, it is seen as black, gray, or white, the achromatic colors. Any other Visible light is electromagnetic radiation in the distribution produces the sensation of a chromatic range of wavelengths to which the normal human vis- color, one which has a distinguishable hue. ual system is sensitive, about 400 to 700 nanometers. The wavelength determines the perceived hue of the Any three wavelengths of light can be mixed in vary- light; the amplitude is interpreted as intensity. ing proportions to create many different colors. Some sets of three wavelengths can produce more In general, light is not of a single wavelength but colors than others, but the particular characteris- a continuous mixture of all the wavelengths across tics of the three human receptor systems make it some part or all of the visible spectrum. The per- impossible for any such set of three primary colors ceived color is then a function of the spectral dis- to duplicate all colors. The three primaries which tribution of amplitude by wavelength. The shape of can be mixed to produce the greatest number of the distribution determines what is perceived as colors are particular wavelengths of red, green and the chromaticity (color without regard to intensity) blue. For this reason, most color display systems of the light. For a given chromaticity, the abso- are based on three light sources which are as close 20 to these colors as possible. Color Spaces for User Interaction Chromaticity is a function of the ratios between the Because most people are not familiar with additive primary colors. If their relative values are ex- primary mixing, rgb space is not always suitable pressed as proportions of the sum of all three, for applications when the user is composing colors. chromaticity may then be plotted as a function of However, many people who are artistically inclined any two primary colors as shown in Figure i. In are quite proficient at seeing a color as a mixture this chromaticity diagram, the locations of the of the "subtractive primaries" cyan, magenta, and three primaries are the vertices of a color tri~ yellow. A color space so defined is just the in- angle which is the boundary of the area represent- verse of the rgb space, with white at the origin ing all colors which they can reproduce. The horse- (Figure 3). The correspondingly simple transforma- shoe-shaped curve is the locus of spectral colors tion to rgb space is given by: and therefore bounds all the visible colors. The colors on the straight line connecting the end- [r g b] = [i 1 i] - [c m y] (eq. i) points of the spectral locus are the pure non- spectral hues. The colors lying within the spec- where r,g,b are the red, green, and blue components, tral locus but outside the color triangle are those c,m,y are the cyan, magenta, and yellow components, which cannot be produced by the primaries because, all scaled in the range [0 0 0] to [i 1 i]. in terms of the diagram, they would each require one primary component to assume a negative value. Most viewers, though, first notice a color's hue The primaries are "optimum" in that the area repre- and then characteristics which might be described as senting the nonreproducible colors is minimum. lightness, brightness, brilliance, strength, satura- tion, vividness, purity, etc., many of which are Ultimately, any color to be displayed by a red/ interrelated. For interactive purposes, then, a green/blue component system must be specified by system of specifying colors based on such qualities those components. All colors which can be created would be most natural for a naive user. can therefore be represented within a cubic volume in the all-positive octant of an orthogonal three- Since hue is a circular or modular quality, while space whose axes are the rgb primaries (Figure 2). all the other characteristics mentioned imply the For many applications, it is convenient to regard a existence of minimum and maximum values, points in color as a point in this rgb color space. For many any color space related to these qualities may be others, however, it may be preferable to specify specified by cylindrical coordinates. The scaling colors as points in some other color space. If this of the angular component (that is, the precise func- alternative space has been defined parametrically tion relating hue to the angle) is somewhat arbi- in terms of r,g, and b and a function exists to trary for these applications. The remaining two transform its coordinate system to an rgb coordinate axes can be defined in a variety of ways. system, the result of such a transformation can be fed to the display device. One convenient arrangement of hue is an equidistant gree~ 620 530 ~ r e e n I \N00% ~ 570 0.4 ewhite o.~ Figure 2. RGB color space, and color solid. s,0 I4ao I "o Y~ s2o~" ~magenta 470 630 . 700 - ~44o,.~ ' _ 0.6 o.8 I.o '~ Figure i. Chromaticity diagram, with color triangle, spectral locus, ~n and "line of purples," for monochromatic primaries of yell~"~..~.~-'"'~ I~' ~ wavelengths 650 nanometers (red), 530 nanometers (green), Figure 3. Cyan/magenta/yellow color space, and 460 nanometers (blue). and color solid. 21 spacing of the primaries and their complements in which are of maximum chroma for their respective their natural order, with other hues located by hues (for the given rgb display space) are located linear interpolation as graphed in Figure 4a. The on a circle centered On the gray axis and per- rgb-component ratios are computed from the hue pendicularly intersecting it halfway between the angle as follows: black point and the white point; and all other colors are linearly interpolated by rgb components l if 0 ~ h ~ 1/6 or 5/6 ~ h < 1 between black, white and the colors on that circle of corresponding hues. All the colors that can be =$2r - 6h if 1/6 <h ~ 2/6 r displayed define a volume (hereafter referred to as 0 if 2/6 < h < 4/6 the color solid) which in this color space is bi- I conical. The space and color solid are diagrammed L6h - 4 if 4/6 < h < 5/6 (eq. 2a) in Figure 5. Figure 6a is a radial (constant-hue) section of the color solid, and Figure 6b is a sec- 6h if 0 < h ~ 1/6 ~ tion perpendicular to the cylindrical axis (con- =~ 1 if 1/6 <h <3/6 stant-intensity). In this space, the lightness or g intensity of a color is defined by the vertical |4 - 6h if 3/6 <h < 4/6 ! coordinate of the horizontal plane which contains ~0 if 4/6 < h < 1 (eq. 2b) the color; the radius relates to its chroma. 0 if 0 < h < 2/6 It is usually more convenient to define the space so that the radius corresponds to the chroma rel- ~6h - 2 if 2/6 <h <3/6 ative to the maximum achievable chroma for the hue b =~I if 3/6 < h < 5/6 and intensity of the color.
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