File:Color temperature black body 800-12200K.svg

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Description	English: Color emitted by a black body on a linear scale from 800 kelvins to 12200 kelvins, given by Planck's Law, assuming a monitor properly calibrated to sRGB color space - D65 white point - 2.2 gamma. Colors are out of gamut below 1934 K, so those have been desaturated to fit in sRGB color space (relative mapping). It has been done with Microsoft Excel and Adobe Illustrator. Every 1 kelvin, a sample was computed as follow : Temperature (K) → Planck's law → CIE 2006 2° LMS color matching functions (1nm) → sRGB color space (Relative) → Gamma 2.2 → SVG Then the whole data set has been optimized in order to rely on gradient interpolation when no visible difference occured. Special thanks to Mitchell Charity whose website helped me to start this project.
Date	11 October 2015
Source	Own work
Author	Bhutajata
Other versions	798 K - 57060 K (log) 1934 K - 11074 K (linear) Mireds
SVG development InfoField	The SVG code is valid. This diagram was created with Adobe Illustrator. The file size of this SVG diagram may be irrationally large because its text has been converted to paths inhibiting translations.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	12:47, 12 May 2017	512 × 131 (50 KB)	Bhutajata	Gamma 2.2
	12:49, 29 October 2016	512 × 131 (49 KB)	Bhutajata	More optimization
	17:13, 24 October 2016	512 × 131 (56 KB)	Bhutajata	Optimized
	23:59, 21 October 2016	512 × 131 (200 KB)	Bhutajata	Accuracy
	23:07, 21 October 2016	512 × 131 (166 KB)	Bhutajata	Reverted to version as of 22:32, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
	22:48, 21 October 2016	512 × 131 (166 KB)	Bhutajata	Testing blend mode
	22:32, 21 October 2016	512 × 131 (166 KB)	Bhutajata	More samples Color balanced
	17:51, 23 October 2015	512 × 131 (83 KB)	Bhutajata	Font
	04:51, 13 October 2015	512 × 131 (79 KB)	Bhutajata	Plus étroit
	04:51, 13 October 2015	512 × 131 (79 KB)	Bhutajata	Plus étroit