Variables of Perceived Color
- 1 December 1964
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America
- Vol. 54 (12) , 1467-1474
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josa.54.001467
Abstract
The variables of perceived color are reconsidered critically. Two ways of viewing color are distinguished as modes of perception: (1) perceiving the effect of light entering the eye, as such, and (2) perceiving the effect produced by an object on the perceived color of light. For the light mode of perception, there are at least four and possibly six or more independent perceptual variables for the general case. For the object mode this number is reduced by at least one. Both modes can be reduced to three perceptual variables by simple restrictions but, in general, the three to which they reduce are not the same.Keywords
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