Color perception, was Re: human tetrachromate mutant reported

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2000 - 10:16:05 MST


Check out Dr. Land's Retinex theory of color vision for what might be an
interesting clue.

I also sometimes notice additional information from wearing polarized
sunglasses. A leaf on the ground will appear to have a peculiar
glistening sheen. I should research this some more.

Dave Sill wrote:
>
> hal@finney.org quoted:
> >
> > The two eyes perceive two different shifts in
> > the color of an object relative to the perception of the color of the
> > object by the unaided eye.
<snip>
> I don't get it. I don't see--excuse the pun--how selectively filtering the
> light reaching each eye can add information. The depth perception analogy
> doesn't work because in this case the filtering doesn't provide new
> information.
>
> -Dave



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:32:09 MST