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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010351</journal-id>
      <journal-title>Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging, and Vision</journal-title>
      <abbrev-journal-title>conf colour graph imag vis</abbrev-journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2158-6330</issn><issn pub-type="epub"/>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society of Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/CGIV.2010.5.1.art00074</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2158-6330(20100101)2010:1L.471;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">cgiv_v2010n1/splitsection74.xml</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">/ist/cgiv/2010/00002010/00000001/art00074</article-id>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group>
          <subject>Articles</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Wide-gamut image capture</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Poynton</surname>
            <given-names>Charles</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>01</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2010</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2010</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>471</fpage>
      <lpage>482</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2010</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p><italic>Colour gamut</italic> refers to the range of colours that can be reproduced by an imaging system. The definition of gamut is quite clear for displays and for hard-copy printing. Colour image science experts disagree, however, on the definition &#x2013; or even applicability of the concept
 &#x2013; of gamut for cameras. I disagree that there is any meaningful concept of &#x201C;capture gamut.&#x201D; In this note, I review trichromacy and metamerism and discuss various gamuts. I conclude that although metamerism is a phenomenon of what I call &#x201C;31-space,&#x201D; gamut lives
 in 3-space. With suitable colour signal processing, a 3-channel camera is capable of acquiring wide gamut images.</p>
      </abstract>
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