Frédéric wrote:
Marti Maria (LittleCMS) said that sRGB covers 80% of the colors a human can see. I was very surprised, because sRGB covers only 30% of Lab colorspace (in area), and AdobeRGB98, 50%. I thought that Lab represents all colors a human can see. So, are sRGB/AdobeRGB98 cover nearly all colors, or not ? If not, what are the colors from real world which can't be represented ?
L*a*b* space contains a large volume of non-real colors. You can't reproduce 0, 100, 100 for instance, and technically, there is no limit to the a* and b* values, so the L*a*b* volume is infinite.
The visual gamut is contained within the spectrum locus, but it's total extent goes a bit outside the ICC L*a*b* limits of a* and b* being between -128 and 127.
(I haven't quite figured out how to make a Lab plot of the total visual gamut to compare with sRGB or AdobeRGB98, so I can't comment about that.)
Graeme Gill.