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I have an emission spectrum from a sheet of luminescent material. Can you help convert the emission spectrum to an RGB color to display?

April 26, 2017color convert display emission help Luminescent material RGB Sheet spectrum

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I have an emission spectrum from a sheet of luminescent material. Can you help convert the emission spectrum to an RGB color to display?

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The easiest way is to first convert your spectral curve into CIE XYZ tristimulus values (see texts such as Berns’ “Principles of Color Technology, 3rd Ed.” for details) and then convert those tristimulus values to default RGB values such as sRGB (see w3.org). You could do better by having a specific calibration for your display to convert XYZ to accurate RGB values for your display, but the sRGB values would be a simple, and commonly used, approximation.