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  • noun A set of three stimuli, especially the red, green and blue components of colour vision.

Etymologies

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tri- +‎ stimulus

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Examples

  • M. varians in the nham system significantly reduced nitrate to nitrite during the initial fermentation and increased the tristimulus values at the beginning of fermentation.

    17 Using Mixed Starter Cultures for Thai Nham 1992

  • The PM-1400's tristimulus filter wheel more precisely mimics the colour response of the human eye, meaning that the ProMetric camera will report colour differences more accurately.

    LEDs Magazine Products 2008

  • The attributes of the ProMetric photometer which lead to Bentley choosing this camera over rival systems (or indeed an ordinary video CDD camera) were the PM-1400's 16,000: 1 photometric resolution, full frame CCD sensor (1536 x 1024 pixels), traceable calibration and precise match to the CIE tristimulus observer functions.

    LEDs Magazine Products 2008

  • a. a scanner for producing from said color original a set of three tristimulus appearance signals dependent on the colors in said original;

    Federal Circuit Clarifies Means-Plus-Function (Sort Of) Peter Zura 2006

  • a. a scanner for producing from said color original a set of three tristimulus appearance signals dependent on the colors in said original;

    Archive 2006-09-01 Peter Zura 2006

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