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Re: Big RGB <-> CMY Problem

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From: Carsten Salewski
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 14:57
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In article 1522@tom.rz.uni-passau.de, friedric@diogenes.uni-passau.de (Carsten Friedrich) writes:

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>I have a big problem converting colors from cmy to rgb and vice versa.
>The usual aproach, to just invert the components seems to be incorrect.
>
(...)
>
>carsten

Did you try this:

	R = V/cv + Y
	B = U/cu + Y
	G = (Y - 0.299 R - 0.114 B) / 0.587

Probably you forgot these constants cv = 0.493 and cu = 0.877.

Reference:

"Fernsehtechnik; Bd. 2: Systeme und Komponenten zur Farbbilduebertragung",
 Broder Wendland, Hartmut Schroeder, Huethig Buch Verlag Heidelberg.
 pages 51-53.

Carsten Salewski

email: salewski@helios.tnt.uni-hannover.de
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