isoluminant

comparative more isoluminant · superlative most isoluminant

1. Equally luminant.

   When visual fields are isoluminant, they look the same to our luminance processing pathway, while potentially looking quite different to the color processing path. This creates a perceptual tension exploited by skilled artists.

   2005, Luong et al., “Isoluminant Color Picking for Non-Photorealistic Rendering”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

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   An isoluminant chromatic display is a color display in which the component colors have been so carefully equated in luminance that they stimulate only color-sensitive perceptual mechanisms and not luminance-sensitive mechanisms.

   1999, Zhong-Lin Lu et al., “The mechanism of isoluminant chromatic motion perception”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

   Synonyms: equiluminant