LED Lighting Color & MacAdam Ellipse and Why Are They Important?
Every space we need to illuminate is unique. Choosing the right LED lighting color can be tough. It’s one of the most important factors when selecting your lighting fixtures and will make a big difference in how successful your project ends up being. In 1931 the CIE published its famous Chromaticity graph. It meant that every color that could be created by a mixture of red-green-blue could be given a unique number on the graph. Around 1940, David MacAdam ran a series of tests and demonstrated that rather than a single color is indicated by a point on a graph,...