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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magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Physics; Color science

A non-invasive technique for imaging soft tissues including the brain. MRI has been mostly used for detecting and localizing damage to the brain but recently versions of the technique have been ...

chromaticity coordinates

Physics; Color science

Coordinates that specify position in a chromaticity diagram. The chromaticity coordinates of a stimulus are derived from its tristimulus values by taking the ratio of each of the tristimulus values ...

dichromacy

Physics; Color science

Condition of possessing two independent channels for conveying color information. Color matching for dichromats requires only two primaries. Most "color blind" humans are dichromats and have lost ...

unilateral dichromat

Physics; Color science

A person with normal color vision in one eye and some form of dichromacy in the other. Unilateral dichromats are very rare.

tri-stimulus colorimetry

Physics; Color science

A set of techniques for predicting color matches by equating a given stimulus with the amounts of three specified primaries that would be required to match it. The amounts of three primaries that ...

monochromatic

Physics; Color science

Consisting of a single wavelength or narrow range of wavelengths. (See spectral light. )

chroma

Physics; Color science

Attribute of a visual sensation which permits a judgment to be made of the amounts of pure chromatic color present, irrespective of the amount of achromatic color. For colors of the same hue and ...