Chapter 3
The Science of Color
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding the origin of color
Exploring the connection between the eye and the brain
Learning about synesthesia
Experiencing color vision deficiencies
Color is an aesthetic experience, tied to our understanding of beauty, mood, and emotion. Underneath this world of appearances lies an extraordinarily complex set of phenomenon that result in color perception. Some aspects of color perception are rooted in physics and have to do with wavelengths of electromagnetic energy. Others are rooted in biology and how the human eye takes in color information and communicates with the brain. Because the biological structures that enable color perception are unique to each individual, color perception must be recognized as the subjective experience that it truly is.
In this chapter, you learn a bit about how processes in both physics and biology work together to create color perception. You also discover factors that contribute to different ways of seeing color, such as color vision deficiency and synesthesia.
The systems outlined in this chapter ...
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