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How Do We Distinguish Colors? Is Your Red The Same As My Red?

Posted Aug 08 2010 5:11am


vision and color

And excerpt from the Rebuild Your Vision Newsletter

Experts estimate that we can distinguish perhaps as many as 10 million colors. However, the identification of a specific color is highly subjective, since even our own two eyes perceive colors slightly differently from each other.

Color is often mistaken as a property of light, when it really is a property of the brain. Our experience of color depends not only on the wavelength of the light rays that hit the retina, but also the context in which we perceive it: Background hues, lighting, familiarity, and surroundings all affect the way we see color.

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