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As we have three cones used to observe tone and colour, the colour/tone of something occupies a 3D space.

However, as you say, a pigment colour has high dimensional properties - the spectral response. As others have mentioned this determines how it impacts on the observed/perceived colour, depending in the spectral response of the light it reflects.



The 4D space I was thinking of was the CYMK pigment mixes. I’m aware that the perception from a given lighting is in a 3D space of basically rgb.




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