Performance Comparison of HSV and L*a*b* Spaces in Thought Form Image Analysis

Nature and behavior of human beings are reflected in their Thought-forms which are inseparable part of human biofield. Emission of Biophotons from human body has been known to be ultraweak. Recent research on biophotons capturing techniques have yielded a two dimensional imaging system–a marked improvement over only detection and measurement possibility till recent past. With continuing progress in biophotonic research, prospects of developing an imaging system worthy of capturing thoughts in image form, are no longer outside the realm of possibility. The physiological structure of human beings, from the view point of Biophysicists and Theosophists, has a great deal in common since both talk of a cloud of electromagnetic field in a spectrum of colors over a physical body. A literature survey resulted in locating a large number of hand-drawn, hand-painted true color images of thought forms in Theosophical Society literature. These images were published nearly hundred years ago bearing comments of ‘Good or Bad, or a mix of both Good and Bad’. The basis on which the comments were attributed was stated to have followed the three principles of ‘(i) Quality of thought determines color, (ii) Nature of thought determines form, and (iii) Definiteness of thought determines clearness of outline. Motivated by this background, this paper is devoted not only to verify the truth of comments, but also to explore the possibility of applications of the developed procedure in other areas of social life. We use L*a*b* color space to identify the patterns of Good or Bad in thought form images, and compare its performance with the HSV space which authors recently reported. It is shown that L*a*b* space outperforms HSV space.