CIE colour/color model.

A colour model defined by the CIE - Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage or the International Commission on Illumination.

The commission was founded in 1913 and released an important set of colour standards in 1931 - their Colorimetric Standard Observer Model. The CIE colour model involves a roughly horseshoe-shaped colour diagram plotted on a grid indicating the colours perceivable by the human eye and has been revised a number of times over the years.

Since each person sees colour slightly differently the standard observer model - an arbitrary fixed standard - was defined.

cf. colorimetry.

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