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1. INTRODUCTION
Color Star is a high-performance color identifier with leading-edge
technology that recognizes up to 1000 different nuances of color and offers
clear and natural speech. In addition, it compares colors, identifies
patterns and measures color contrast. It not only recognizes the color of
LED-lights, but also measures the intensity of ambient light.
There are different methods for measuring color. Color Star uses a
sophisticated analysis based on the RGB (red-green-blue) color sensor
module. This method analyzes color the same way that the three receptors
of the eye do.
Color Star announces colors in two different ways:
- using universal color names (scientific names developed by the
International Commission on Illumination CIE)
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sing artistic (or „traditional“) color names that are used in everyday
language
Each and eveyone of us has his or her own perception and interpretation
of color and light. Color Star is programmed in a more general way. The
colors may thus vary from the user‘s own individual perception of colors,
but the measurements remain highly precise according to the
programming.