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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color temperature

Physics; Color science

The temperature of the perfect black body radiator whose chromaticity is closest to that of the light under consideration. A useful measure of the quality of a light with a particular spectral power ...

opponent process theory

Physics; Color science

The theory that color appearances are the result of a recoding of photoreceptor outputs into three processes or channels, two opponent chromatic channels (yellow-blue and red-green), and one ...

dichoptic matching

Physics; Color science

A matching experiment in which stimuli are presented separately to the two eyes. The match is thus between a stimulus seen using one eye and a stimulus seen using the other eye.

Grassman's laws

Physics; Color science

Laws governing the results of additive color matching experiments (see additive mixture). Grassman's laws assert the existence of exactly three dimensions of variation in perceived color, e.g. hue, ...

porphyropsin

Physics; Color science

Photopigment utilizing 3,4 dehydroretinal instead of retinal as its chromophore. This substitution has the effect of shifting peak absorption to longer wavelengths.