An interesting color space is HCL, which is explicitly made to try and provide good interpolation that more common spaces like RGB don't provide. By accounting for luminosity (which is the L), more intuitive and natural interpolation can be achieved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL_color_space
JustinHuey1
Another example of color space that I found is ICtCp. It was developed by Dolby laboratories and a part of the color image pipeline in video and digital photography systems for high dynamic range (HDR) and wide color gamut (WCG) imagery. The interesting thing about this one is that it accounts for intensity which represents how bright the video is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICtCp#cite_note-DolbyICtCpPaperApril2016Dolby-2
waleedlatif1
One interesting thing I thought about with different types of color spaces was converting between them, and whether there were any issues with precision since they each have their own representation of how the numbers represent colors in the visual field. While exploring this question, I came across the LAB color space which separates the lightness (L) from the color information (A, B). This space is not very common outside of being a precise color management system, but it represents a wide range of colors and is used as an intermediary color space to convert colors between other color spaces.
ClaireLiu123
Besides RGB, there is another common color space CMYK. People usually use CMYK in the printing process because it describes what kind of inks need to be applied so the light reflected from the substrate and through the inks produces a given color.
sartk
It's interesting to see the various color spaces that exist and how they are used in different contexts. Based on what I found online, while RGB is commonly used for electronic displays, CMYK is commonly used in printing to ensure accurate color reproduction. LAB is also an interesting color space as it separates lightness from color information, allowing for more precise color management.
joeyhou0804
And the reason why there are four colors in the CMYK system is that: although by mixing the three colors of cyan, yellow, and magenta, there can be almost any color, and black should be the mixing result of all colors, this is both inefficient and inaccurate. Black is used often in printing, and the result of printing three colors all at once is usually messy. Also, because of the difference in ink, the mixture of all three colors is usually not perfect black, making using the color black itself more efficient than just combining everything.
An interesting color space is HCL, which is explicitly made to try and provide good interpolation that more common spaces like RGB don't provide. By accounting for luminosity (which is the L), more intuitive and natural interpolation can be achieved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL_color_space
Another example of color space that I found is ICtCp. It was developed by Dolby laboratories and a part of the color image pipeline in video and digital photography systems for high dynamic range (HDR) and wide color gamut (WCG) imagery. The interesting thing about this one is that it accounts for intensity which represents how bright the video is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICtCp#cite_note-DolbyICtCpPaperApril2016Dolby-2
One interesting thing I thought about with different types of color spaces was converting between them, and whether there were any issues with precision since they each have their own representation of how the numbers represent colors in the visual field. While exploring this question, I came across the LAB color space which separates the lightness (L) from the color information (A, B). This space is not very common outside of being a precise color management system, but it represents a wide range of colors and is used as an intermediary color space to convert colors between other color spaces.
Besides RGB, there is another common color space CMYK. People usually use CMYK in the printing process because it describes what kind of inks need to be applied so the light reflected from the substrate and through the inks produces a given color.
It's interesting to see the various color spaces that exist and how they are used in different contexts. Based on what I found online, while RGB is commonly used for electronic displays, CMYK is commonly used in printing to ensure accurate color reproduction. LAB is also an interesting color space as it separates lightness from color information, allowing for more precise color management.
And the reason why there are four colors in the CMYK system is that: although by mixing the three colors of cyan, yellow, and magenta, there can be almost any color, and black should be the mixing result of all colors, this is both inefficient and inaccurate. Black is used often in printing, and the result of printing three colors all at once is usually messy. Also, because of the difference in ink, the mixture of all three colors is usually not perfect black, making using the color black itself more efficient than just combining everything.