Generation of Specific Chromaticities on CRT Monitors.
Abstract
The increased use of CRT displays for presenting the aviator with flight information has generated an increasing interest in the use of color for representing CRT display symbology. Critical to the implementation of color for this purpose is the development of standardized chromaticities for coding displayed features. Generation of specific chromaticities on CRT displays applied color matching principles using the chromaticities of CRT phosphors as the new set of primaries, and transforming their ratios in the generated color to those of a desired standard color. A procedure to implement this transformation was proposed by Gutmann and Rogers (1982), and further developed by Spiker and Rogers (1984). While their procedure was theoretically sound with respect to color mixing principles, it failed to produce predicted chromaticities when used in conjunction with a variety of commercial and aircraft CRT monitors. This result raised some perplexing issues with respect to the relationship between color display technology, the science of color mixing, and the psychophysics of color perception. This report attempts to clarify the problem of direct application of color mixing to CRT's and proposes a modified procedure for generating specific chromaticities on CRT displays suitable for use in a field environment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA187739
Entities
People
- Barbara Bernabe
- William Keane