Color
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| [[Image:Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886) - Seurat.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte]]'' ([[1884]]-[[1886]]) - [[Georges Seurat]]]] | [[Image:Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886) - Seurat.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte]]'' ([[1884]]-[[1886]]) - [[Georges Seurat]]]] | ||
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| - | '''Color''' or '''colour''' is the [[visual perception|visual perceptual]] property corresponding in [[humans]] to the categories called ''red'', ''yellow'', ''blue'', ''black'', etc. | + | '''Color''' or '''colour''' is the [[visual perception|visual perceptual]] property corresponding in [[humans]] to the categories called ''red'', ''yellow'', ''blue'', ''[[black]]'', etc. |
| 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. | 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. | ||
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Color or colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue, black, etc.
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).
See also
- Distinction of blue and green in various languages
- Couleur locale
- List of colors
- Synaesthesia
- Grue
- The Missing Shade of Blue
