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Calculating Color

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Harry Keegan seated at mechanical calculator CIE color coordinates of standard sources, 1958

Harry Keegan of NIST’s Photometry & Colorimetry Division using a mechanical calculator in 1958 to compute color coordinates for standard sources.

Optical / photometry / laser metrology
Released December 14, 2016, Updated March 19, 2025
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