Talk:Color rendering index: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 14:58, 30 December 2020

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Agree in part -- CRI is a terrible metric to use by any lighting expert's standards. However it is specific and important for historic reasons. Not to mention it's dominance in household products. CRI deserves to remain a page perhaps with the heading "CIE Color Rendering Index" to more specifically refer to the named standard. A new page on the topic of color rendering should be written using the following definition "The property of a lighting fixture which describes how the light it produces will affect the appearance of colored materials"

==Humm.. not sure where to put that one==

there is apparently a typo in the Table given in the third reference, namely "CIE (2004), CIE Colorimetric and Colour Rendering Tables, Disk D002, Rel 1.3" the tables linked to Disk D002, rel 1.3:

The value at 740 nm for Sample 13 is written "750", likely to be "0.750" in fact, but I have no way to be sure. <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Goretesque|Goretesque]] ([[User talk:Goretesque|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Goretesque|contribs]]) 12:36, 26 March 2009 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== New test color samples section ==