People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Human eyes perceive visible light as this array of colors. You may notice that some colors you can ...

In an art gallery or museum, the lighting is typically designed to reduce shadows and illuminate work using a spectrum that approximates, but rarely achieves, that of natural daylight. But daylight at ...

Our ancestors had evolved the ability to see the full-color spectrum of visible light, except for UV around 30 million years ago; a new study has demonstrated. The scientists have finished a detailed ...

Color perception is an ancient and active philosophical problem. It’s an instance of the wider category of sensory perception, but since the color spectrum fits on a single line (unlike, say, touch ...

Color blindness is the inability of the human eyes to perceive red, blue, yellow or green colors. Color blindness is not a form of blindness, but is the deficiency of the way the person sees colors.

Let’s talk about how you’re perceiving color. The idea came to me when a coworker asked if they should get the computer with 100-percent sRGB or 100-percent Adobe RGB, which displays more shades of ...

Scientists have used a new lens to focus all the colors of the rainbow into one point. This is the first time a single lens has been used to focus the entire spectrum of light, including white light.