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Because each of the long-, middle-, and short-wavelength-sensitive (L, M, and S) cone types responds univariantly to light, human color vision and human color matches are trichromatic. Trichromatic color matches depend on the spectral sensitivities of the three cones, which are also known as the fundamental color matching functions (or CMFs): \( \overline{l}\left(\lambda \right) \), \( \overline{m}\left(\lambda \right) \), and \( \overline{s}\left(\lambda \right) \). The spectral sensitivity of each cone reflects how its sensitivity changes with wavelength. Measured at the cornea, the L-, M-, and S-cone quantal spectral sensitivities peak at approximately 566, 541, and 441 nm, respectively. These fundamental CMFs are the physiological bases of other measured CMFs, all of which should be linear transformations of the fundamental CMFs.
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Stockman, A. (2016). CIE Physiologically Based Color Matching Functions and Chromaticity Diagrams. In: Luo, M.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8071-7_326
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