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  2. Color photography - Wikipedia

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    Color photography (also spelled as colour photography in Commonwealth English) is photography that uses media capable of capturing and reproducing colors. By contrast, black-and-white or gray- monochrome photography records only a single channel of luminance (brightness) and uses media capable only of showing shades of gray .

  3. Colorvision - Wikipedia

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    Colorvision may refer to: Color vision, the ability of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths (or frequencies) of the light they reflect, emit, or transmit. Color Visión, a television network based in the Dominican Republic; Romtec Colorvision, an tabletop/handheld video game console from 1984

  4. Color vision - Wikipedia

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    Color vision, a feature of visual perception, is an ability to perceive differences between light composed of different frequencies independently of light intensity. Color perception is a part of the larger visual system and is mediated by a complex process between neurons that begins with differential stimulation of different types of ...

  5. Edwin H. Land - Wikipedia

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    Optics, polarization, color vision Edwin Herbert Land , ForMemRS , [ 2 ] FRPS , Hon.MRI (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor, [ 4 ] best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation .

  6. Color Visión - Wikipedia

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    Color Visión was founded on July 25, 1968 as the first color television station in the Dominican Republic and the third such company in Latin America as a whole and began regularly scheduled programming on November 30, 1969, in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.

  7. Solarization (photography) - Wikipedia

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    In photography, solarization is the effect of tone reversal observed in cases of extreme overexposure of the photographic film in the camera. Most likely, the effect was first observed in scenery photographs including the sun. The sun, instead of being the whitest spot in the image, turned black or grey.

  8. Young–Helmholtz theory - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Young and Hermann von Helmholtz assumed that the eye's retina consists of three different kinds of light receptors for red, green and blue.. The Young–Helmholtz theory (based on the work of Thomas Young and Hermann von Helmholtz in the 19th century), also known as the trichromatic theory, is a theory of trichromatic color vision – the manner in which the visual system gives rise to ...

  9. Color vision test - Wikipedia

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    An Ishihara test image as seen by subjects with normal color vision and by those with a variety of color deficiencies. A pseudoisochromatic plate (from Greek pseudo, meaning "false", iso, meaning "same" and chromo, meaning "color"), often abbreviated as PIP, is a style of standard exemplified by the Ishihara test, generally used for screening of color vision defects.