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Distances defined in a specific color space are not mapped uniformly into other spaces.

Consider a set of points uniformly spaced in the Lab space with a neighborhood defined by a ball of radius 0.2.

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The circular projections are mapped into distorted curves when viewed in the chromaticity diagram.

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