isoluminant

English

Etymology

iso- + luminant

Adjective

isoluminant (comparative more isoluminant, superlative most isoluminant)

  1. equally luminant
    • 2005, Luong, et al, “Isoluminant Color Picking for Non-Photorealistic Rendering”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      When visual fields are isoluminant, they look the same to our luminance processing pathway, while potentially looking quite different to the color processing path. This creates a perceptual tension exploited by skilled artists.
    • 1999, Zhong-Lin Lu, et al, “The mechanism of isoluminant chromatic motion perception”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      An isoluminant chromatic display is a color display in which the component colors have been so carefully equated in luminance that they stimulate only color-sensitive perceptual mechanisms and not luminance-sensitive mechanisms.

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