joshsmith
Interpreting Distance scores
Correction: 600 has shown to be a close match rather than the previously stated 6,000
In comparing two colors, I have seen distances ranging from 0 to over 20,000. Most of the time, scores near 6,000 seem to be a close match, while they appear to be less of a match as you get away from that number.
Is this a safe assumption? How do you interpret the distance score numbers?
Hey, sorry for the long delay! I was gone at Army training and just now saw this.
I'm not really sure what to make of those numbers. I'm by no means an expert at the L_a_b color space. In fact, I don't think it's even the most accurate way of interpreting human vision.
If you had some screenshots of comparisons that would be really interesting to see.
@RickCarlino 8 years later, it turns out that this is probably due to a long-standing math error in color perception geometry. Here’s a link to the paper on the subject if you’re curious: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2119753119#sec-8