An earlier analysis, which yielded an optimal pair of blue and green
primaries (436 & 490 nm) for tritanomaloscopy, is reevaluated. That
analysis minimized population variance in the mid-match points of color
normals by taking into account, for a set of blue and green tritanopic
metamers, the contributions of the lens and macular pigment variances
and of matching range. The revision to the matching-range contribution
takes into account the effect, neglected in the original analysis, of
the varying angle between the blue–green primary mixture lines
and the corresponding cyan test and yellow desaturant mixture lines.
Use is made of new measurements of the macular pigment absorbance
spectrum, a new estimate of the lens absorbance spectrum, the
population variances of the lens and macular pigment, and of
matching-range data for a current Moreland equation. Tritanopic
metamers are derived from a revised set of cone fundamentals. The net
effect of all of these revisions on the specification of optimal
primaries is small (440 and 488 nm). However, larger changes are
involved in the choice of test and desaturant wavelengths.