The Influences of Lightness Variation of the Non-Color Background on the Color of the Blood Amber

Abstract:

In this study, based on CIE L^*a^*b^* uniform color space, the Color i5 measurement instrument was used to measure the color parameters of seven blood amber samples under the D₆₅ illuminant. In addition, the influences of lightness variation of the non-color background on the lightness, the color saturation and the hue of the blood amber were also investigated and discussed. The results show that the lightness of the blood amber is significantly enhanced with the increased lightness of the non-color background and the blood amber with higher transparency is more sensitive to the change of the non-color background; the color saturation of the blood amber increases gradually with the raise of the lightness of the non-color background, which means that the blood amber on the high-lightness background looks more bright-colored than the one on the low-lightness background; the red color hue angle range of blood amber turns out to be diffusing with the increase of the lightness of the non-color background, which means that a slight difference of the hue can be more easily discriminated on the high-brightness background. Thus, it can be concluded that the blood amber with higher transparency is much easier to be influenced by the non-color background; and the increase of the lightness of the non-color background can lead to higher lightness, more bright-colored saturation and diffused hue angle range of the blood amber; and the blood amber is more bright-colored and the color difference can be more easily discriminated on the background with higher lightness.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 633)
• Pages: 524-535
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.633.524
• Online since: November 2014
• Authors: Ya Xiao*, Ying Guo, Da Peng Chen
• Keywords: Blood Amber, Color Difference, Color Saturation, Hue Angle, Lightness, Non-Color Background

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