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Issues with definitions involving lightness/brightness

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The article says, "Saturation is the "colorfulness of an area judged in proportion to its brightness", and then links to the article Brightness. But then one of the image caption says, "7.5PB and 10BG Munsell hue pages of RGB colors, showing lines of uniform saturation (chroma in proportion to lightness) in red."

So is saturation proportional to lightness or to brightness? Or is it proportional to both? SharkD  ☎  07:12, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Generally, lightness is a color appearance parameter, whereas brightness is is more of an absolute physical quantity related to luminance or luminous flux. But the two terms are sometimes confused.[1] In this context and given the reference, I think lightness is the appropriate property. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 12:21, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The article also says, "In CIECAM02, saturation equals the square root of the colorfulness divided by the brightness" and "In CIELUV [and CIELAB], saturation is equal to the chroma normalized by the lightness"
So, does lightness/brightness depend on the color space? SharkD  ☎  13:59, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Generally not; a color space is a gamut of colors independent of how one models them. However, a color model (e.g., HSL, CIELAB, etc.) defines its own coordinate system and may have its own definition of or transformation to a lightness parameter. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 19:15, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
But CIELAB calls itself a color space. Anyway, I just lost interest in the topic. SharkD  ☎  01:41, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Blakeslee, Barbara; Reetz, Daniel; McCourt, Mark E. (6 August 2008). "Coming to Terms with Lightness and Brightness: Effects of Stimulus Configuration and Instructions on Brightness and Lightness Judgments". Journal of vision. 8 (11): 3.1–314. doi:10.1167/8.11.3. ISSN 1534-7362.

Munsell saturation

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Please see this discussion. I am not sure how saturation is derived in the Munsell system. ➧datumizer  ☎  00:40, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 12 May 2021

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) ~ Aseleste (t, e | c, l) 13:15, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]


ColorfulnessColorfulness, chroma, and saturation – Lead claims that this article is about three slightly different, but overlapping, topics, with topics defined by the International Commission on Illumination. –LaundryPizza03 (d) 15:18, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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