[ELI5] What determines which color an object is?
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Edited because rules: Most educated people will talk about the spectral characteristics of light additive or pigment additive color wheels, but that’s the physics of light while color perception is specific to the biology of the eye and the brain. The eye doesn’t send color info to the brain like a camera does, it sends contrast information which the brain uses to determine what color something is.
Zogg from Betelgeuse explains it better than I can in Earthlings 101 ep 12. https://youtu.be/hZED73seTQE
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