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  2. Display contrast - Wikipedia

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    The "luminance contrast" is the ratio between the higher luminance, L H, and the lower luminance, L L, that define the feature to be detected.This ratio, often called contrast ratio, CR, (actually being a luminance ratio), is often used for high luminances and for specification of the contrast of electronic visual display devices.

  3. Orders of magnitude (illuminance) - Wikipedia

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    10 −2: 5 mcd/m 2: Approximate scotopic/mesopic threshold [8] 10 −1: 10 0: cd/m 2: 2 cd/m 2: Floodlit buildings, monuments, and fountains [9] 10 1: 5 cd/m 2: Approximate mesopic/photopic threshold [8] 25 cd/m 2: Typical photographic scene at sunrise or sunset [7] 30 cd/m 2: Green electroluminescent source [5] 10 2: 55 cd/m 2: Standard SMPTE ...

  4. Luminance - Wikipedia

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    A luminance meter is a device used in photometry that can measure the luminance in a particular direction and with a particular solid angle. The simplest devices measure the luminance in a single direction while imaging luminance meters measure luminance in a way similar to the way a digital camera records color images. [6]

  5. Contrast (vision) - Wikipedia

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    Contrast is the difference in luminance or color that makes an object (or its representation in an image or display) visible against a background of different luminance or color. [1] The human visual system is more sensitive to contrast than to absolute luminance; thus, we can perceive the world similarly despite significant changes in ...

  6. CIECAM02 - Wikipedia

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    Lightness is the subjective appearance of how light a color appears to be. Colorfulness is the degree of difference between a color and gray. Chroma is the colorfulness relative to the brightness of another color that appears white under similar viewing conditions. This allows for the fact that a surface of a given chroma displays increasing ...

  7. Luminosity - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, the term brightness in astronomy is generally used to refer to an object's apparent brightness: that is, how bright an object appears to an observer. Apparent brightness depends on both the luminosity of the object and the distance between the object and observer, and also on any absorption of light along the path from object to ...

  8. Brightness - Wikipedia

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    When appearing on light bulb packages, brightness means luminous flux, while in other contexts it means luminance. [5] Luminous flux is the total amount of light coming from a source, such as a lighting device. Luminance, the original meaning of brightness, is the amount of light per solid angle coming from an area, such as the sky.

  9. HCL color space - Wikipedia

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    Luminance (Y or L v,Ω) The radiance weighted by the effect of each wavelength on a typical human observer, measured in SI units in candela per square meter (cd/m 2). Often the term luminance is used for the relative luminance, Y/Y n, where Y n is the luminance of the reference white point. Colorfulness