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276 points samwillis | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.208s | source
1. akira2501 ◴[] No.41083517[source]
> I say "cursed" because I have no idea what that means. What the heck is that shape??

Reminds me of frinklang.

"The most-commonly used, CIE 1931, is long known to be off by a factor of 7 from average human perception at short wavelengths, (compare it to the 1978 definition at 400 nm) and is arbitrarily truncated before the limits of human perception. In addition, no one perceptually-weighted curve is possible because the human eye is differently sensitive for photopic (bright-light, cone cells) and scotopic (dark-adapted, rod cells), or if the illumination occurs over narrower or wider fields. Many incremental improvements on these systems have been proposed, but none are part of the authoritative, oversimplified definition of the candela, making it useless for unambiguous definitions that can be agreed upon or binding to any party. Pronouncements of the CIE are in no way binding on the BIPM, nor vice-versa, and the CIE has a proliferation of "standard curves," which all disagree with each other. Agreements to use one curve or another thus have to be agreed outside the definitions of the SI, and, of course, parties can disagree on which curve to use. You can use CIE 1931, or CIE 1978, or the "CIE 1988 Modified 2° Spectral Luminous Efficiency Function for Photopic Vision" or the 2005 improvements by Sharpe, Stockman, Jagla & Jägle, or ISO 23539:2005(E), or something else..."

https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt