CIE 1960 color space

This article is about an obsolete version of the CIELUV color space. For the video color model, see YUV.
The Planckian locus on the MacAdam (u, v) chromaticity diagram. The normals are lines of equal correlated color temperature.

The CIE 1960 color space ("CIE 1960 UCS", variously expanded Uniform Color Space, Uniform Color Scale, Uniform Chromaticity Scale, Uniform Chromaticity Space) is another name for the (u, v) chromaticity space devised by David MacAdam.[1]

The CIE 1960 UCS does not define a luminance or lightness component, but the Y tristimulus value of the XYZ color space or a lightness index similar to W* of the CIE 1964 color space are sometimes used.[2]

Today, the CIE 1960 UCS is mostly used to calculate correlated color temperature, where the isothermal lines are perpendicular to the Planckian locus. As a uniform chromaticity space, it has been superseded by the CIE 1976 UCS.

  1. ^ MacAdam, David Lewis (August 1937). "Projective transformations of I.C.I. color specifications". JOSA. 27 (8): 294–299. doi:10.1364/JOSA.27.000294.
  2. ^ Arun N. Netravali, Barry G. Haskell (1986). Digital Pictures: Representation, Compression, and Standards (2E ed.). Springer. p. 288. ISBN 0-306-42195-X.