The following question may be naive and incomplete in some way I don't know. I'm not a specialist on spectroscopy, colours and light curves, color spaces, etc.
Suppose you have a simple power-law function ; f(ω,α)=ωα, which describes the spectral distribution of light angular frequencies as this : I=κ∫ωmax0f(ω,α)dω,
Then the question is this :
Assuming that ωmax is an angular frequency (rad/sec) which is in the visible spectrum or above it (i.e. ultra-violet), how can we define the color of the light described by the α index and the maximal value ωmax ?
By color, I mean something that could be compared in some way with the perception that we would have of that "α-light", in the visible spectrum only.
For example, if α=0, the spectral distribution would be "flat" (i.e. uniform). What would be the color of light if ωmax corresponds to pure violet light, and 0≤ω≤ωmax ? I guess white light !
If α=2, then the distribution would favour the violet and blue frequencies over the orange and red frequencies, so the light would look like blueish in some way, isn't ?
I hope the question is clear enough and doesn't bring me to the all messy/complicated problems of human/eye/brain/psychology perception ! I'm looking for something simple and "physical" only, if it exists ! In other words : is there a simple approximate "trick" to define a "color" from α and ωmax alone ? I'm just looking for some kind of approximation, to give an idea of what color the light might have.
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