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Luminance

A measure of the energy being reflected or emitted by a surface and in which the energy is weighted by the CIE Vʎ, also called the CIE y-bar color matching function. Luminance is an approximate correlate of brightness. The Y value in the set of CIE XYZ tristimulus values is the luminance.

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