The term gamut was adopted from the field of music, where the medieval Latin expression "gamma ut" meant the lowest tone of the G scale and, in time, came to imply the entire range of musical notes of which musi… See more

Colorimetry is the measurement of color, generally in a way that mimics human color perception. Input devices such as digital cameras or scanners are made to mimic trichromatic human color perception and are based … See more

The gamut of reflective colors in nature has a similar, though more rounded, shape. An object that reflects only a narrow band of wavelengths will have a color close to the edge of the CIE diagram, but it will have a very low lu… See more