Harmonic analysis has in recent years contributed significantly to the understanding of flicker fusion phenomena, including the areas of heterochromatic flicker where critical flicker frequency is viewed as a function of pulse-to-cycle fraction. In this context, modifications of selected values of variables in previous harmonic analytic functions for describing changes in heterochromatic critical flicker frequency were considered. These modifications allow the luminance aspect of heterochromatic flicker to be viewed in clear relation to conventional luminance flicker rather than in terms of the chromatic aspects of the heterochromatic flicker situation.
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