Geometry of Multiprimary Display Colors II: Metameric Control Sets and
Gamut Tiling Color Control Functions
Abstract
For multiprimary displays that have four or more primaries, a color may
be reproduced using multiple alternative control vectors. We provide a
complete characterization of the Metameric Control Set (MCS), i.e., the
set of control vectors that reproduce a given color on the display.
Specifically, we show that MCS is a convex polytope whose vertices are
control vectors obtained from (parallelepiped) tilings of the gamut,
i.e., the range of colors that the display can produce. The mathematical
framework that we develop: (a) characterizes gamut tilings in terms of
fundamental building blocks called facet spans, (b) establishes that the
vertices of the MCS are fully characterized by the tilings of the gamut,
and (c) introduces a methodology for the efficient enumeration of gamut
tilings. The framework reveals the fundamental inter-relations between
the geometry of the MCS and the geometry of the gamut developed in a
companion Part I paper, and provides insight into alternative strategies
for color control. Our characterization of tilings and the strategy for
their enumeration also advance knowledge in geometry, providing new
approaches and computational results for the enumeration of tilings for
a broad class of zonotopes in R3.