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    This document discusses color, defining it as the visual perceptual property corresponding to categories like red and blue. It explains that color derives from the spectrum of light interacting with the eye's light receptors. Color can be identified numerically by coordinates in a color space and defined by how it stimulates different cone cell types in the retina. While color can be physically and physiologically quantified, this does not fully explain human color perception. The science of color includes both the physics of light and human color perception and theory.

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    This document discusses color, defining it as the visual perceptual property corresponding to categories like red and blue. It explains that color derives from the spectrum of light interacting with the eye's light receptors. Color can be identified numerically by coordinates in a color space and defined by how it stimulates different cone cell types in the retina. While color can be physically and physiologically quantified, this does not fully explain human color perception. The science of color includes both the physics of light and human color perception and theory.

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    Color(AmericanEnglish)orcolour(BritishEnglish)(seespelling

    differences)isthevisualperceptualpropertycorrespondinginhumanstothe
    categoriescalledred,blue,yellow,andothers.Colorderivesfrom
    thespectrumoflight(distributionoflightpowerversuswavelength)
    interactingintheeyewiththespectralsensitivitiesofthelightreceptors.
    Colorcategoriesandphysicalspecificationsofcolorarealsoassociatedwith
    objectsormaterialsbasedontheirphysicalpropertiessuchaslight
    absorption,reflection,oremissionspectra.Bydefiningacolorspace,colors
    canbeidentifiednumericallybytheircoordinates.
    Becauseperceptionofcolorstemsfromthevaryingspectralsensitivityof
    differenttypesofconecellsintheretinatodifferentpartsofthe
    spectrum,colorsmaybedefinedandquantifiedbythedegreetowhichthey
    stimulatethesecells.Thesephysicalorphysiologicalquantificationsof
    color,however,donotfullyexplainthepsychophysicalperceptionofcolor
    appearance.
    Thescienceofcolorissometimescalledchromatics,colorimetry,or
    simplycolorscience.Itincludestheperceptionofcolorbythehumaneyeand
    brain,theoriginofcolorinmaterials,colortheoryinart,and
    thephysicsofelectromagneticradiationinthevisiblerange(thatis,what
    wecommonlyrefertosimplyaslight).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color

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