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- From: gene1@unix.SRI.COM (Eugenio Martinez-Uriegas)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: Is there a mathematical relationship RGB -> wavelength?
- Message-ID: <37924@unix.SRI.COM>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 20:54:31 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.233117.21185@cco.caltech.edu> <5760@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <1992Aug17.033205.23903@unocal.com>
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- In article <1992Aug17.033205.23903@unocal.com> stgprao@xing.unocal.com (Richard Ottolini) writes:
- >The psychology of color perception is much more complicated than the response
- >of the four kinds of retina cells. The late Edwin Land of Polaroid was
- >fond of showing images composed of two color primaries that appeared to have
- >all the colors in it. I assume every has seen the optical illusions where
- >moving B&W objects appear to have color.
- >I recall an articlein Scientific American on the psychology of color perception
- >within the last two years, but I don't have the reference at hand.
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- Two great sources of fundamentals on color vision are:
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- Wyszecki & Stiles's "Color Science" (Wiley) and
- Boynton's "Color Vision" (Holt)
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