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Color (American English) or Colour (British English See: Light

Color is the visual perceptual property corresponding to categories like red and blue. It derives from the spectrum of light interacting with light receptors in the eye. Color can be identified numerically by coordinates in a color space. Perception of color stems from the varying sensitivity of cone cells in the retina to different parts of the spectrum. The science of color, sometimes called chromatics or colorimetry, includes the perception of color by the human eye and brain, the origin of color in materials, and the physics of light in the visible range.

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Color (American English) or Colour (British English See: Light

Color is the visual perceptual property corresponding to categories like red and blue. It derives from the spectrum of light interacting with light receptors in the eye. Color can be identified numerically by coordinates in a color space. Perception of color stems from the varying sensitivity of cone cells in the retina to different parts of the spectrum. The science of color, sometimes called chromatics or colorimetry, includes the perception of color by the human eye and brain, the origin of color in materials, and the physics of light in the visible range.

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Color (American English) or colour (British English; see spelling differences) is the visual

perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, blue, yellow, etc. Color
derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light power versus wavelength) interacting in
the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical
specifications of color are also associated with objects or materials based on their physical
properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra. By defining a color space
colors can be identified numerically by their coordinates.
Because perception of color stems from the varying spectral sensitivity of different types of cone
cells in the retina to different parts of the spectrum, colors may be defined and quantified by the
degree to which they stimulate these cells. These physical or physiological quantifications of
color, however, do not fully explain the psychophysical perception of color appearance.
The science of color is sometimes called chromatics, colorimetry, or simply color science. 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 (that is, what
we commonly refer to simply as light).

Contents

1 Physics of color
o 1.1 Spectral colors
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1.2 Color of objects

2 Perception
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2.1 Development of theories of color vision

2.2 Color in the eye

2.3 Color in the brain

2.4 Nonstandard color perception

2.4.1 Color deficiency

2.4.2 Tetrachromacy

2.4.3 Synesthesia

2.5 Afterimages

2.6 Color constancy

2.7 Color naming

3 Associations

4 Spectral colors and color reproduction

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