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25 sectionsContents
- Physical properties
- Spectral colors<span class="anchor" id="Spectral colours"></span>
- Color of objects<span class="anchor" id="Colour of objects"></span>
- Color vision<span class="anchor" id="Colour vision"></span>
- Development of theories of color vision<span class="anchor" id="Development of theories of colour vision"></span>
- Color in the eye<span class="anchor" id="Colour in the eye"></span>
- Color in the brain<span class="anchor" id="Colour in the brain"></span>
- Nonstandard color perception<span class="anchor" id="Nonstandard colour perception"></span>
- Color vision deficiency<span class="anchor" id="Colour vision deficiency"></span>
- Tetrachromacy
- Synesthesia
- Afterimages
- Color constancy<span class="anchor" id="Colour constancy"></span>
- Reproduction
- Additive coloring<span class="anchor" id="Additive colouring"></span>
- Subtractive coloring<span class="anchor" id="Subtractive colouring"></span>
- Structural color<span class="anchor" id="Structural colour"></span>
- Optimal colors
- Maximum chroma colors, semichromes, or full colors
- Cultural perspective
- Associations
- Terminology
- See also
- References
- External links
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Color (or colour in Commonwealth English) is the visual perception produced by the activation of the different types of cone cells in the eye caused by light. Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorption, emission, reflection and transmission. For most humans, visible wavelengths of light are the ones perceived in the visible light spectrum, with three types of cone cells (trichromacy). Other animals may have a different number of cone cell types or have eyes sensitive to different wavelengths, such as bees that can distinguish ultraviolet, and thus have a different color sensitivity range. Animal perception of color originates from different light wavelength or spectral sensitivity in cone cell types, which is then processed by the brain.