Color science

Color science

Also called chromatics, it includes the perception of color by the human eye and brain, the origin of color in materials, color theory in art, and the physics of electromagnetic radiation in the visible range or light.

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spectral sensitivity of a photoreceptor

Physics; Color science

The sensitivity of a photoreceptor at each wavelength in the visible spectrum. For a given wavelength, this is equal to the ratio of the photoreceptor response at that wavelength to its response at ...

extrastriate cortex

Physics; Color science

Those areas of visual cortex lying outside primary visual cortex.

primary

Physics; Color science

A member of a minimal set of stimuli (usually lights), mixtures of the elements of which are capable of matching all colors. For normal human beings three primaries are sufficient to provide a ...

photophore

Physics; Color science

Light emitting (bioluminescent) organ.

ishihara test

Physics; Color science

A test for color blindness using a set of pseudoisochromatic plates.

chromophore

Physics; Color science

The light absorbing part of a photopigment. The photopigments contained in photoreceptors consist of two components: an opsin bound to a chromophore. The chromophore in human (and all mammalian) ...