inViewingConditions
Translate a color into different ViewingConditions.
Colors change appearance. They look different with lights on versus off, the same color, as in hex code, on white looks different when on black. This is called color relativity, most famously explicated by Josef Albers in Interaction of Color.
In color science, color appearance models can account for this and calculate the appearance of a color in different settings. HCT is based on CAM16, a color appearance model, and uses it to make these calculations.
See ViewingConditions.make for parameters affecting color appearance.