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Correlated color temperature (CCT)

Correlated color temperature is a description of light source color in terms of the temperature of a blackbody radiator that has the same perceived color.
Blackbody radiators are special in that their temperature is sufficient to describe an exact spectrum according to Plank's law.


Source

James Ferwerda, Siggraph 2020