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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illuminant point of an illuminant

Physics; Color science

The illuminant's location on the chromaticity diagram.

opsin

Physics; Color science

The protein component of a photopigment. Different opsins give rise to photopigments with different spectral absorption characteristics and consequently account for the differences in spectral ...

retinal

Physics; Color science

1) In or having to do with the retina; 2) The chromophore contained in human photopigments.

Pα cell

Physics; Color science

Ganglion cells, found in the primate retina, that are thought to be the origin of the magnocellular pathway. Also referred to as M cells, parasol cells, or A cells. They are analogous to the ...

polarization

Physics; Color science

The spatial orientation of the electromagnetic waves that make up a beam of light. Light in which the spatial orientation of the waves is not random is said to be polarized. Although most light ...

microspectrophotometry

Physics; Color science

A technique for obtaining measurements of the spectral absorption of a single photoreceptor cell. It is especially useful as a means for investigating non-human color vision without behavioral ...