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by danielvf 3575 days ago
I've been diving to light, color, and color perception the last couple weeks as part of a fun work project. I've got a diffraction grating spectrometer on my desk that measures light in half nanometer wavelengths. From the papers that I've read, and the stuff I've messed with so far, it seems that human perception of colour - on average - is well studied, and has been since the 1930's. We know how light gets into the eye, and how much each wavelength of light will excite the average eye's individual color specific sensors.

Once the info leaves the receptors, now that's a another story...