Color Printing
The brain synthesizes a colorful printing from three color information given by the eye: the quantities of blue, red and green. This information is provided by three types of cells (cones) of the retina.
By varying the amounts of blue, red and green light entering the eye, can give the brain the impressions of all visible colors.
In the simulation below, three slide projectors, fitted with blue filters respectively, green and red light up a screen. You can vary the intensity of the beams by moving the mouse to the three sliders. In the square, you’ll see what we see in that part of the screen where the three beams of light are added together. This is called additive color. A prism breaks this light.
Your brain synthesizes a complex color, but physically, the resulting light is composed of only three selected wavelengths through the filters of the projectors.
This is how TV screens and computers visus, each pixel is composed of three points, one blue, one green and one red. To give an impression of color, simply adjust the brightness of the three points.
Color blindness
Color blindness is a disturbance of color vision. A color blind (this condition mostly affects males and is transmitted genetically) sees the same way in different colors.
A current model of blindness described by the lower sensitivity of the three families of cones in the retina. Thus, a colorblind whose cones sensitive to blue light would be seen less effective in the same way color containing the same amount of red and green but the amount of blue is slightly different.
You can test your eyes using the above simulation, set the value of two colors and vary slowly in the third. Do you see any differences?
What to see an object?
See an object is to receive in the eye of light from different points of the object.
View point of an object can be described:
in terms of light wave: the eye receives a spherical light wave whose center is the point.
in terms of light rays: the rays diverge from this point coming into the eye. For a point of an object is seen by an eye, you need:
the object is illuminated by a light source. (we see nothing in the dark!)
that point refers (diffuse) light in all directions. (we do not see the mirrors and transparent objects)
diffused rays that penetrate through the point in the eye. (we do not see what is hidden!)
they diverge from this point.
Real or virtual
It is not important for the eye as the rays diverge from that point, the eye (and brain) will see this item on the spot where the rays seem to come. If the rays actually come from the object (straight line) to the eye, the object is real. If they come to the eye after a circuitous route, the object is virtual.
For example, objects viewed in a mirror we think the plan behind it although the same side as us.
The color of objects The white light is due to the addition of all colors.
The color of a point of an object illuminated with white light is due to selective scattering of light that is received.
A white dot rebroadcasts all colors.
A black dot absorbs all colors and does not broadcast anything.
A red dot pure (monochromatic) absorbs all colors and produces only red.
The color of an item is the result of a subtraction (selective absorption) of light colors to white people talk about “synthesis” subtractive color.
The color of an object depends on:
the manner in which the pigments constituting the point scatter and absorb different wavelengths;
the composition of light that illuminates it, and if an object is illuminated with red pure blue light, it appears as pure red black absorbs all colors, including blue and red only broadcasts it receives not.
and of course the eye and brain of the beholder
In reality, the color pigments diffuse color ranges, the colors are never released pure (monochromatic) is the eye and the brain interprets these ranges in color prints.
Examples of scattering spectra of colors of pigment content in markers
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On the document attached cons, we analyzed the light scattered by a sheet of white drawing paper, then covered with red felt pen, blue and green. The curves give the brightness of the scattered light as a function of wavelength, therefore the color. The paper was illuminated by light from a slide projector, decomposed by a network and analyzed by a linear array CCD.
We realize that the colors are distributed far from monochromatic! However, the eye and brain are white, green, blue and red