'Math Error' Found in Foundation of Century-Old Color Theory - PetaPixel

A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has produced a paper that shows that the longheld “current mathematical model of how the eye perceives color differences is incorrect.”.

The new mathematical representation has found that the line segments representing the distance between widely separated colors do not add up correctly with human color perception when using the previously accepted geometry.

Bujack and her colleagues discovered that Riemannian geometry overestimates the perception of large color differences.