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Summary
This report deals with the effect of stimulus size on colour
appearance for the case of large ( 20°) colour stimuli. Neither
the standard observers nor the CIECAM02 model can predict the
colour size effect, i.e. the different colour appearance of large
stimuli compared to a standard size stimulus. This report defines
the concept of equivalent colour to describe large size colour
stimuli in terms of standard 2° stimuli of equal colour
appearance.
There is only little research dealing with the effect of
stimulus size. This report refers to a few projects on colour
appearance of real life rooms, façades and immersive self-luminous
displays. In the laboratory tests there is a trend that the
perceived colour of the large stimulus exhibits a higher lightness
and a higher chroma than the small one. Significant hue changes
were also observed.
Results from real life studies do not always agree with those
from laboratory tests. One reason for this could be that there are
several other factors that interact with the colour size effect and
influence the colour appearance of large stimuli. Therefore, the
tentative mathematical models of this Report are intended to
describe only specific viewing situations.