People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Human eyes perceive visible light as this array of colors. You may notice that some colors you can ...

In an art gallery or museum, the lighting is typically designed to reduce shadows and illuminate work using a spectrum that approximates, but rarely achieves, that of natural daylight. But daylight at ...

Our ancestors had evolved the ability to see the full-color spectrum of visible light, except for UV around 30 million years ago; a new study has demonstrated. The scientists have finished a detailed ...

Let’s talk about how you’re perceiving color. The idea came to me when a coworker asked if they should get the computer with 100-percent sRGB or 100-percent Adobe RGB, which displays more shades of ...

This clever color wheel reveals how different languages explain the color spectrum, whether in three words or more than 60 words. By Colin Lecher Published Dec 12, 2012 8:00 PM EST Get the Popular ...

Scientists have used a new lens to focus all the colors of the rainbow into one point. This is the first time a single lens has been used to focus the entire spectrum of light, including white light.

Color can add dimensionality and richness to scientific communications. In figures, color is typically used to differentiate information into classes. The challenge is picking colors that are ...