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Negative tristimulus values arise in a matching experiment when

  • A.the primaries are of insufficient spectral purity
  • B.a primary must be added to the test field rather than the match
  • C.the observer makes an error while setting the three primaries
  • D.the test light is brighter than the primaries can achieve

Answer: B

Correct answer: a primary must be added to the test field rather than the match

Some test colours are more saturated than any mixture of the three primaries can achieve, so the observer desaturates the test instead by adding one primary to its side of the field. That amount is recorded as negative, since algebraically it has been moved across the equation - and it is why the RGB matching functions dip below zero.

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