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The Perceptibility of Color Differences in Continuous Transitions
  DOI :  10.2352/CIC.2023.31.1.6  Published OnlineNovember 2023
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Whether two stimuli appear to be of different colors depends on a host of factors, ranging from the observer, via viewing conditions to content and context. Previously, studies have explored just noticeable difference thresholds for uniform colors viewed with or without spatial separation, for complex images and for fine features like lines in architectural drawings. An important case that has not been characterized to date is that of continuous color transitions, such as those obtained when selecting two colors and generating a sequence of intermediate colors between them. Such transitions are often part of natural scenes (e.g., sunsets, the sky, curved surfaces, soft shadows, etc.) and are also commonly used in visual design, including for backgrounds and various graphical elements. Where the just noticeable difference lies in this case will be explored here by way of a small-scale, pilot experiment, conducted in an uncontrolled, on-line way. Its results suggest a threshold in the region of 0.5 to 0.8 ΔE2000 for the few stimuli evaluated in the pilot experiment reported here and indicate a behavior that is in the region of viewing solid colors without a gap. A pilot verification with complex images also showed thresholds with a comparable range.

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Jan Morovič, Peter Morovič, "The Perceptibility of Color Differences in Continuous Transitionsin Color and Imaging Conference,  2023,  pp 26 - 32,  https://doi.org/10.2352/CIC.2023.31.1.6

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