Software that would give me the resulting color depending

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Hi,
I'm looking for a software that would give me the resulting color depending on the luminances of other colors (for instance 30% of red (680 nm) + 59% of green (545nm) + 11%of blue (440 nm) gives a white color).

Thanks for the help.
 

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penguin007 said:
Hi,
I'm looking for a software that would give me the resulting color depending on the luminances of other colors (for instance 30% of red (680 nm) + 59% of green (545nm) + 11%of blue (440 nm) gives a white color).

Thanks for the help.

1) Luminance is a perceptual measure of light integrated over wavelength, it doesn't really make sense to talk about luminance in individual wavelengths because luminance is a quantity integrated over wavelength. I think the word you are looking for is radiance.

2) I believe the question is ill-posed because you assume that the perceived color is determined only by the proportion of radiant light in each wavelength...whereas I believe the perception of each wavelength is non-linear.

3) Anyway, I think your question may be best answered by simply converting between color spaces...such as, convert from RGB into HSV color space. Conversation equations are here,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV

By the way, this isn't really a software question as nobody is going to design a piece of software for such a basic calculation.
 


Thanks for this explanation but I still do not understand everything:
Supposing that we light up the same surface of an optical system (the eye) by two different monochromatic lights (each one characterized by a wavelength and intensity): Can we predict the color that will be perceived by the eye?
 


I believe that is possible, but it is not a programming problem so much as a physics problem. Try asking in the Physics areas.