Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!sun!imagen!isaak From: isaak@imagen.UUCP (Mark Isaak) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Perceptual Color (was: Re: Looking for Blue LEDs) Message-ID: <1943@imagen.UUCP> Date: 4 Oct 88 13:12:20 GMT References: <790@ncar.ucar.edu> Organization: Imagen Corp., Santa Clara CA Lines: 8 "The Nature of Things" on PBS had a good show on color perception a couple of days ago. The gist of the program was that, in order for the brain to perceive the same color under different lighting conditions, it considers not only the light coming from the object, but from surrounding objects as well. -- Mark Isaak {decwrl,sun}!imagen!isaak or imagen!isaak@decwrl.dec.com "Inquiry is fatal to certainty." - Will Durant