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Pale Orange to Bluest Blue

JUL 01, 1950
W. E. K. Middleton

When the International Commission on Illumination adopted its colour metric in 1931 the possibility of calculating a numerically exact specification of certain aspects of colour reacted strongly on the imaginations of workers in many fields.

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