We present a new approach to the optimization of sources of white light based on colored light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and show that a pentachromatic source composed of LEDs with the equidistant peak wavelengths at about 450, 500, 550, 600, and renders all 1269 colors of the Munsell palette almost indistinguishably from daylight.
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