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Question

In Analysis/Irradiance Options/Map Data/Quantities to plot, there are a lot of map types to select. Could you provide some information about "CIE(xy)" and "CIE(u'v')" or their applications in optics?

Synopsis

CIE Plots

Solution

The CIE(xy) and CIE(uv) plots are plots of the CIE Tristimulus Values used in the field of Colorimetry. For more information, see:

http://cie.co.at/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ncs/color/a_chroma.html