lambda2color 0.6

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# lambda2color: convert a given light wavelength into the corresponding RGB color

This is a simple library to transform a given light wavelength into the corresponding RGB color.

It is based on the different sensitivities to a novel color space called the [CIE 193 “ XYZ” color space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space) and defined by the CIE colour matching function for 380 - 780 nm in 5 nm intervals :


This allows to simply compute for instance the color of different monochromatic lights:


For more advanced uses, see for instance this blog post computing [the color of the sky](https://laurentperrinet.github.io/sciblog/posts/2020-07-04-colors-of-the-sky.html).