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qiqinl

But how does CIE 1931 answer the question on the last page? How does it give the actual spectrum?

jasonx

The math details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space#Computing_XYZ_from_spectral_data

CIE 1931 uses specially calibrated curves to extract numbers from the spectral data.