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Why is "colour.plotting.plot_RGB_colourspaces_gamuts" definition producing unexpected results?

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Issue Description

Hi Colour Team,

I use this snippet code to generate the gamuts in CIE XYZ:

My Colour version: 0.3.15

I think this result is wrong, because sRGB gamut lies outside ProPhoto RGB one. Expected result:

sRGB gamut should lie entirely inside ProPhoto RGB one.

Could you help me check this out? Did I write any thing wrong in my code?

Thanks

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)

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KelSolaarcommented, Aug 14, 2020

Hi @hminle,

This is a pure side effect of the illuminants of the two RGB colourspaces being different, i.e. D65 vs D50. What you can do is something like that:

PPRGB_D65 = colour.models.RGB_COLOURSPACES['ProPhoto RGB'].chromatically_adapt(
    colour.ILLUMINANTS['CIE 1931 2 Degree Standard Observer']['D65'])

colour.plotting.plot_RGB_colourspaces_gamuts(
    colourspaces=[PPRGB_D65, 'sRGB'], reference_colourspace='CIE XYZ')

If you have a doubt like that, try CIE xyY and you will see that ProPhoto RGB encompasses almost entirely sRGB but they diverge at the top of the volume because of their different whitepoint.

You can also verify that here: https://www.colour-science.org:8020/

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KelSolaarcommented, Aug 22, 2020

@hminle : I have added support in the develop branch to chromatically adapt the RGB colourspaces in the various plotting definitions: