color vision
Sign in to saveAlso known as colour vision, vision of color, vision of colour
ability of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on wavelengths of light
Research
19,294 papers- Acquired color vision deficiency.Survey of ophthalmology · 2016
- Color vision: introduction.Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision · 2012
- [Color vision].L'annee psychologique · 1952
- Aids for color vision deficiency: introduction to the feature issue.Optics express · 2022
- Impact of color vision deficiency on the quality of life in a sample of Indian population: Application of the CVD-QoL tool.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2023
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- biological function
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- visual perception
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Encyclopedic overview
Colorless, green, and red photographic filters as imaged by camera
Color vision (CV), a feature of visual perception, is an ability to perceive differences between light composed of different frequencies independently of light intensity.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “color vision” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.