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Color Theory For Dummies
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Color Theory For Dummies

by Eric Hibit
September 2022
Beginner
288 pages
7h 42m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 3

The Science of Color

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Understanding the origin of color

Bullet Exploring the connection between the eye and the brain

Bullet Learning about synesthesia

Bullet 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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