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Ability to perceive differences in light frequency
Color vision (CV), a feature of visual perception, is an ability to perceive differences between light composed of different frequencies independently of light intensity. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Color visionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Personalized Image Recoloring for Color Vision Deficiency CompensationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad IslandThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Retinex Theory of Color VisionCited 2,530 times
- Go sideways: TrichromacyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: ColorA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Retinex Theory of Color Vision
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🆕 Influential since 2022
Personalized Image Recoloring for Color Vision Deficiency Compensation
Color vision devices for color vision deficiency patients: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
Potential value of color vision aids for varying degrees of color vision deficiency
The mechanism of human color vision and potential implanted devices for artificial color vision
Effects of color-enhancing glasses on color vision in congenital red-green color deficiencies
📚 Books worth reading
The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad IslandOliver Sacks · 1996
Interaction of ColourJoseph Albers · 1963
The colour-senseGrant Allen · 1879
Ueber das Sehn und die FarbenArthur Schopenhauer, Julius Frauenstädt · 1816
ColorRolf G. Kuehni · 1996
Color appearance modelsMark D. Fairchild · 1998
Applying Color Theory to Digital Media and VisualizationTheresa-Marie Rhyne · 2016
Color-vision and color-blindnessJohn Ellis Jennings · 1896
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🔗 Related topics
- Trichromacy Trichromacy or trichromatism is the possession of three independent channels for conveying color information, derived from the three different types of…
- Color Color (or colour in Commonwealth English) is the visual perception produced by the activation of the different types of cone cells in the eye caused by…
- Opponent process The opponent process is a hypothesis of color vision that states that the human visual system interprets information about color by processing signals…
- Tetrachromacy Tetrachromacy (from Ancient Greek tetra, meaning "four" and chroma, meaning "color") is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying…
- Evolution of color vision in primates The evolution of color vision in primates is highly unusual compared to most eutherian mammals. A remote vertebrate ancestor of primates possessed tetrachromacy…
- Unique hues Unique hue is a term used in perceptual psychology of color vision and generally applied to the purest hues of blue, green, yellow and red. The proponents…
- Impossible color Impossible colors are colors that do not appear in ordinary visual functioning. Different color theories suggest different hypothetical colors that humans…
- Visible spectrum The visible spectrum is the band of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths…