2. What Newton Found (and everyone believed) White light can be split into all wavelengths by a prism

3. Color Vision Theories of Color Vision “Blue” “Green” “Red” Blue Wavelength InputCone Signal to Brain

4. Color Vision Theories of Color Vision “Blue” “Green” “Red” Green Wavelength InputCone Signal to Brain

5. Color Vision Theories of Color Vision “Blue” “Green” “Red” Red Wavelength InputCone Signal to Brain

6. Color Vision Theories of Color Vision “Blue” “Green” “Red” Yellow Equal Parts Red and Green = Wavelength InputCone Signal to Brain

7. Color Vision Theories of Color Vision “Blue” “Green” “Red” Yellow Equal Parts Red and Green = Wavelength InputCone Signal to Brain

8. Color Vision Theories of Color Vision “Blue” “Green” “Red” Yellow Equal Parts Red and Green = Wavelength InputCone Signal to Brain

9. What Newton Found (and everyone believed) White light can be split into all wavelengths by a prism According to previous theories: two wavelengths combine to yield intermediate color and no others Red Light Green Light Red + Green = YELLOW

10. What twist did Land do to this paradigm that confounds the conventional understanding of color mixing?

11. What Land found: Two bands (colors) of the spectrum recombine to produce all the possible colors –provided the appropriate relative amount of each wavelength is projected transparency slides Red Light Green Light

12. How did Land project the “appropriate” ratio of wavelengths?

13. Short- and Long- “record” Capture two grey- scale images of the scene using filters that allow only the wavelengths you will project Camera “short” filter “Long” filter film Projector Object Image “Long” filter “short” filter

14. medium filter long filter Camera splits image into maps of “longer” and “shorter” wavelengths

15. medium/ “green” light long/“red” light Projector combines “longer” and “shorter” wavelengths using the maps to get the appropriate amounts of each Viewer perceives desaturated hues including blues

16. What is Land’s interpretation? How do we perceive color?

17. Land’s interpretation: perception of color is a weighing of the ratio of shorter and longer wavelengths

18. Land’s interpretation: perception of color is a weighing of the ratio of shorter and longer wavelengths

19. Why would the visual system have evolved this way?

20. Hint: “Within broad limits, the actual values of the wavelengths make no difference, nor does the over-all available brightness of each”

21. What is color for? What is color vision used for?

22. What is color for? What is color vision used for? –Identification - what is this thing? –Discrimination - what other things is this like? –Communication - indicates this thing to others

23. What is color for? What is color vision used for? –Identification - what is this thing? –Discrimination - what other things is this like? –Communication - indicates this thing to others But in each case color refers not to the illuminating light, but to the surface of the object itself

24. What is color for? What is color vision used for? –Identification - what is this thing? –Discrimination - what other things is this like? –Communication - indicates this thing to others But in each case color refers not to the illuminating light, but to the surface of the object itself Does the color of an object remain constant under different lighting conditions?

25. Color Constancy The “color” of objects is independent of the ambient light –yellow bananas and green leaves look yellow and green regardless of whether they are viewed in direct sunlight or by the light of a fire

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