A NEW METRIC FOR MEMORY COLOUR PREFERENCE EVALUATION IN LIGHTING APPLICATIONS - EXPERIMENTS, MATHEMATICAL DEFINITION, AND COMPARISON WITH OTHER COLOUR RENDERING INDICES

Abstract

Due to their potential use as an internal reference, memory colours have proven to provide an excellent conceptional approach for the colour rendition evaluation of white light sources in terms of predicting visual appreciation. However, there are still some major drawbacks that can be identified in the principal design of existing memory-based or memory-related colour quality metrics. For this reason, a new experiment was devised trying to overcome the shortcomings of these previous approaches. Based on the experimental output, the main goal of the current study consequently was to derive an improved version of a memory-based colour quality metric, which provides a superior tool for developers and manufacturers that can be used for the optimization of state-of-the-art lighting solutions in cases where visual appreciation and high user acceptability are more important than colour fidelity.