

LUVColor
Details


- LUVColor is a color space designed to have perceptual uniformity, i.e. equal changes in its components will be perceived by a human to have equal effects.
- LUVColor is device independent and corresponds to the CIE 1976
color space with
.
- The parameters have the following interpretation:
-
l lightness, approximate luminance u color v color - ColorConvert can be used to convert LUVColor to other color spaces.
- The parameters
,
, and
are given by
,
, and
, where
,
, and
are color parameters,
,
, and
are white point parameters in XYZColor, and
is a piecewise function that is equal to
for
and
for
.
- LUVColor allows any real number for l, u, and v.
- RGBColor approximately corresponds to l between 0 and 1, u between
and 1.76 and v between
and 0.88.
- If no opacity has been specified, LUVColor[l,u,v] is equivalent to LUVColor[l,u,v,1].
- LUVColor[l,u,v,a] is equivalent to {LUVColor[l,u,v],Opacity[a]}.
- The alternative forms LUVColor[{l,u,v}] and LUVColor[{l,u,v,α}] can also be used. »
- {LUVColor[…], p1, …} indicates that graphics primitives pi should be displayed in the color given.
- The following wrappers can be used around colors:
-
ColorsNear[color,…] specifies a region around color Directive[…,color,…] specifies a color in combination with other directives » Glow[color] specifies color independent of lighting » Opacity[a,color] specifies a color with an opacity a Style[expr,color] displays expr with the specified color » - For 3D surfaces, explicit LUVColor directives define surface colors; the final shading depends on lighting and contributions from specularity and glow. »

Examples
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Scope (3)
Generalizations & Extensions (2)
Tech Notes
Related Guides
Text
Wolfram Research (2014), LUVColor, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LUVColor.html (updated 2021).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2014. "LUVColor." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2021. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LUVColor.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2014). LUVColor. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LUVColor.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_luvcolor, author="Wolfram Research", title="{LUVColor}", year="2021", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LUVColor.html}", note=[Accessed: 10-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_luvcolor, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={LUVColor}, year={2021}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LUVColor.html}, note=[Accessed: 10-August-2025]}