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+ | '''Color''' or '''colour'''<ref>See [[American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or|American and British English spelling differences]].</ref> is the [[visual perception|visual perceptual]] property corresponding in [[humans]] to the categories called ''red'', ''yellow'', ''blue'', ''black'', etc. Color derives from the [[spectrum of light]] (distribution of light energy versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the [[photoreceptor cell|light receptor]]s. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects, materials, light sources, etc., based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra. | ||
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+ | Typically, only features of the composition of [[light]] that are detectable by humans (wavelength spectrum from 400 nm to 700 nm, roughly) are included, thereby objectively relating the [[psychological]] phenomenon of color to its [[physics|physical]] specification. | ||
+ | Because perception of color stems from the varying sensitivity of different types of [[cone cells]] in the [[retina]] to different parts of the spectrum, colors may be defined and quantified by the degree to which they stimulate these cells. These physical or [[physiological]] quantifications of color, however, do not fully explain the [[psychophysical]] perception of color appearance. | ||
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+ | The science of color is sometimes called '''''chromatics'''''. It includes the perception of color by the human eye and brain, the origin of color in materials, [[color theory]] in [[art]], and the [[physics]] of [[electromagnetic radiation]] in the visible range (that is, what we commonly refer to simply as ''[[Light]]''). | ||
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Color or colour<ref>See American and British English spelling differences.</ref> is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue, black, etc. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light energy versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects, materials, light sources, etc., based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra.
Typically, only features of the composition of light that are detectable by humans (wavelength spectrum from 400 nm to 700 nm, roughly) are included, thereby objectively relating the psychological phenomenon of color to its physical specification. Because perception of color stems from the varying sensitivity of different types of cone cells in the retina to different parts of the spectrum, colors may be defined and quantified by the degree to which they stimulate these cells. These physical or physiological quantifications of color, however, do not fully explain the psychophysical perception of color appearance.
The science of color is sometimes called chromatics. It includes the perception of color by the human eye and brain, the origin of color in materials, color theory in art, and the physics of electromagnetic radiation in the visible range (that is, what we commonly refer to simply as Light).