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Sample separation impacts color perception, particularly lightness discrimination. Wider gaps between samples reduce sensitivity to color differences, suggesting proximity is crucial for accurate color evaluation.

Area of Science:

Color Science
Visual Perception
Metrology

Background:

Understanding color difference perception is vital for quality control in various industries.
The influence of physical sample arrangement on perceived color differences is not fully understood.
Existing color-difference formulas may not account for spatial separation effects.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how dividing-strip width (sample proximity) affects sensitivity to suprathreshold and threshold color differences.
To determine if sample separation differentially impacts lightness versus chromaticness discrimination.
To assess the need for incorporating a proximity factor into color-difference evaluation.

Main Methods:

Employed three distinct methods: ratio comparisons, liminal determinations, and repeated color matchings.

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Systematically varied the dividing-strip width between color samples.

Quantified observer sensitivity to both threshold and suprathreshold color variations.

Main Results:

Sample separation generally impairs lightness discrimination more significantly than chromaticness discrimination.
Increased dividing-strip width led to reduced sensitivity to color differences.
The effect was observed for both threshold and small-size color differences.

Conclusions:

Sample proximity is a critical factor influencing the accuracy of perceived color differences.
Lightness perception is more susceptible to spatial separation than chromaticness perception.
Color-difference formulas may require a proximity factor for precise evaluation of small or threshold color differences.