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  2. Impossible color - Wikipedia

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    The human eye's red-to-green and blue-to-yellow values of each one-wavelength visible color [citation needed] Human color sensation is defined by the sensitivity curves (shown here normalized) of the three kinds of cone cells: respectively the short-, medium- and long-wavelength types.

  3. Evolution of color vision - Wikipedia

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    Today, among simians, the catarrhines (Old World monkeys and apes, including humans) are routinely trichromatic—meaning that both males and females possess three opsins, sensitive to short-wave, medium-wave, and long-wave light [4] —while, conversely, only a small fraction of platyrrhine primates (New World monkeys) are trichromats.

  4. Color vision - Wikipedia

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    Photopic relative brightness sensitivity of the human visual system as a function of wavelength (luminosity function) The visible light spectrum ranges from about 380 to 740 nanometers. Spectral colors (colors that are produced by a narrow band of wavelengths) such as red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet can be found in this range ...

  5. Biophilia hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Human preferences toward things in nature, while refined through experience and culture, are hypothetically the product of biological evolution. For example, adult mammals (especially humans) are generally attracted to baby mammal faces with their large eyes and rounded featuress and find them appealing across species. Similarly, the hypothesis ...

  6. Tetrachromacy - Wikipedia

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    The four pigments in a bird's cone cells (in this example, estrildid finches) extend the range of color vision into the ultraviolet. [1]Tetrachromacy (from Greek tetra, meaning "four" and chroma, meaning "color") is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four types of cone cell in the eye.

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  8. Trichromacy - Wikipedia

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    Close-up of a trichromatic in-line shadow mask CRT display, which creates most visible colors through combinations and different levels of the three primary colors: red, green and blue Trichromacy or trichromatism is the possession of three independent channels for conveying color information, derived from the three different types of cone ...

  9. Visual system - Wikipedia

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    The neuropsychological side of visual information processing is known as visual perception, an abnormality of which is called visual impairment, and a complete absence of which is called blindness. The visual system also has several non-image forming visual functions, independent of visual perception, including the pupillary light reflex and ...