CHROMATIC ADAPTATION EFFECTS AND LIMITS OF AMBIENT ILLUMINATION SPECTRAL CONTENT

Abstract

The paper shows results on color discrimination in self-luminous and reflective visual tasks and in a food sample sensory testing application under different illumination chromaticities after adaptation. The results indicate lower color discrimination when the illumination chromatic content is unbalanced, i.e. further from the neutral white and specific issues at the blue dominated illumination. The results may be used for practical purposes in general illumination.