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plotChromaticity

Plot color reproduction on chromaticity diagram

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Syntax

plotChromaticity(colorTable)
plotChromaticity
plotChromaticity(___,Name,Value)

Description

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plotChromaticity(colorTable) plots on a chromaticity diagram the measured and reference colors, colorTable, for color patch regions of interest (ROIs) in a test chart.

plotChromaticity plots an empty chromaticity diagram.

plotChromaticity(___,Name,Value) adjusts aspects of the display using name-value arguments.

Examples

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Open Live Script

This example shows how to display the chromaticity diagram from measurements of color accuracy on an Imatest® eSFR chart.

Read an image of an eSFR chart into the workspace.

I = imread("eSFRTestImage.jpg");

Create an esfrChart object. Display the chart, highlighting the 16 color patches.

chart = esfrChart(I);
displayChart(chart,displayEdgeROIs=false, ...
    displayGrayROIs=false,displayRegistrationPoints=false)

Figure eSFR test chart contains an axes object. The axes object contains 17 objects of type image, text.

Measure the color in all color patch ROIs.

colorTable = measureColor(chart);

Plot the measured and reference colors in the CIE 1976 L*a*b* color space on a chromaticity diagram. Red circles indicate the reference color and green circles indicate the measured color of each color patch. The chromaticity diagram does not portray the brightness of color.

figure
plotChromaticity(colorTable)

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object with xlabel x, ylabel y contains 34 objects of type surface, scatter, quiver, text.

Open Live Script

Read an image of a ColorChecker® chart into the workspace.

I = imread("colorCheckerTestImage.jpg");

Create a colorChecker object, then display the chart with ROI annotations.

chart = colorChecker(I);
displayChart(chart)

Figure Color checker test chart contains an axes object. The axes object contains 25 objects of type image, text.

Measure the color in each color patch ROI.

colorTable = measureColor(chart);

Plot the measured and reference colors on a chromaticity diagram.

figure
plotChromaticity(colorTable)

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object with xlabel x, ylabel y contains 50 objects of type surface, scatter, quiver, text.

Open Live Script

Convert sRGB primary colors to the XYZ color space.

xyz_primaries = rgb2xyz([1 0 0; 0 1 0; 0 0 1]);

Normalize the x and y values of the primary colors.

xyzMag = sum(xyz_primaries,2);
x_primary = xyz_primaries(:,1)./xyzMag;
y_primary = xyz_primaries(:,2)./xyzMag;

Calculate and normalize the D65 white point.

wp = whitepoint('D65');

Normalize the x and y values of the white point.

wpMag = sum(wp,2);
x_whitepoint = wp(:,1)./wpMag;
y_whitepoint = wp(:,2)./wpMag;

Create an empty 2-D chromaticity diagram.

plotChromaticity

Add the (x,y) coordinates of the primaries and white point to the chromaticity diagram.

hold on
scatter(x_whitepoint,y_whitepoint,36,'black')
scatter(x_primary,y_primary,36,'black')
plot([x_primary; x_primary],[y_primary; y_primary],'k')
hold off

Open Live Script

Display a 3-D color solid of the u'v'L color space on an empty chromaticity diagram. Include all u'v'L colors by specifying the brightness threshold as 0.

plotChromaticity("ColorSpace","uv","View",3,"BrightnessThreshold",0)

Input Arguments

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Color values in each color patch, specified as an m-by-8 color table, where m is the number of patches. The eight columns represent these variables:

VariableDescription
ROIIndex of the sampled ROI. The value of ROI is an integer in the range [1, 16]. The indices match the ROI numbers displayed by displayChart.
Measured_R

Mean value of red channel pixels in the ROI. Measured_R is a scalar of the same data type as chart.Image, which can be of type single, double, uint8, or uint16.

Measured_G

Mean value of green channel pixels in the ROI. Measured_G is a scalar of the same data type as chart.Image.

Measured_B

Mean value of blue channel pixels in the ROI. Measured_B is a scalar of the same data type as chart.Image.

Reference_L

Reference L* value of the ROI. Reference_L is a scalar of type double.

Reference_a

Reference a* value of the ROI. Reference_a is a scalar of type double.

Reference_b

Reference b* value of the ROI. Reference_b is a scalar of type double.

Delta_E

Euclidean color distance between the measured and reference color values in the L*a*b* color space, as outlined in CIE 1976. Delta_E is a scalar of type double.

Name-Value Arguments

Specify optional pairs of arguments as Name1=Value1,...,NameN=ValueN, where Name is the argument name and Value is the corresponding value. Name-value arguments must appear after other arguments, but the order of the pairs does not matter.

Before R2021a, use commas to separate each name and value, and enclose Name in quotes.

Example: 'displayROIIndex',false turns off the display of the ROI indices on the chromaticity diagram.

Brightness threshold, specified as the comma-separated pair consisting of 'BrightnessThreshold' and a number in the range [0, 1]. The plotChromaticity function does not display color values with a Y or L value (depending on the color space) less than the brightness threshold.

Color space, specified as the comma-separated pair consisting of 'ColorSpace' and 'xy' to plot in the xyY color space or 'uv' to plot in the u'v'L color space.

Data Types: char | string

Display ROI index labels, specified as the comma-separated pair consisting of 'displayROIIndex' and a numeric or logical 1 (true) or 0 (false). When displayROIIndex is true, then the plotChromaticity function overlays color patch ROI index labels on the chromaticity diagram. The indices match the ROI numbers displayed by the displayChart function.

Parent axes of the chromaticity diagram, specified as the comma-separated pair consisting of 'Parent' and an Axes object.

Dimensionality of chromaticity diagram, specified as the comma-separated pair consisting of 'View' and 2 for a 2-D projection or 3 for a 3-D color solid.

Tips

  • To obtain a color table of the correct format from an esfrChart or colorChecker object, use the measureColor function. You can also create your own color table containing measured and reference colors for an arbitrary number of color ROIs.

  • The reference L*a*b* values of a colorTable measured from a colorChecker object are for the "After November 2014" version of the ColorChecker® chart. The white point of the reference values is the CIE standard illuminant D50.

Version History

Introduced in R2017b

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