color

Also known as coloration, colorful, colouration, colourful

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Research

378,629 papers

On the manipulation, and meaning(s), of color in food: A historical perspective.ReviewJournal of food science · 2023Spence CDOI: 10.1111/1750-3841.16439
Progress on coat color regulation mechanism and its association with the adaptive evolution in mammals.ReviewYi chuan = Hereditas · 2021Yuxing Z, Hong W, Li YDOI: 10.16288/j.yczz.20-390
Liking of art and the perception of color.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2021Altmann CS, Brachmann A, Redies CDOI: 10.1037/xhp0000771
Anthocyanin food colorant and its application in pH-responsive color change indicator films.ReviewCritical reviews in food science and nutrition · 2021Roy S, Rhim JWDOI: 10.1080/10408398.2020.1776211
When color helps.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2018Costa ALFA, Martins TGDS, Martins RV et al.DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2019AO4410
Carotenoids and their isomers: color pigments in fruits and vegetables.ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2011Khoo HE, Prasad KN, Kong KW et al.DOI: 10.3390/molecules16021710
Leaf color formation mechanisms in Alternanthera bettzickiana elucidated by metabolite and transcriptome analyses.Planta · 2022Li W, Li H, Shi L et al.DOI: 10.1007/s00425-022-03840-3
The Evolution of Multiple Color Mechanisms Is Correlated with Diversification in Sunbirds (Nectariniidae).Systematic biology · 2024Nicolaï MPJ, Van Hecke B, Rogalla S et al.DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syae006

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Commons category: Colors
Commons gallery: Colors
P8168: Niukawakami Shrine
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/colors

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25 sections

Contents

Physical properties
Spectral colors
Color of objects
Color vision
Development of theories of color vision
Color in the eye
Color in the brain
Nonstandard color perception
Color vision deficiency
Tetrachromacy
Synesthesia
Afterimages
Color constancy
Reproduction
Additive coloring
Subtractive coloring
Structural color
Optimal colors
Maximum chroma colors, semichromes, or full colors
Cultural perspective
Associations
Terminology
See also
References
External links

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Color (or colour in Commonwealth English) is the visual perception produced by the activation of the different types of cone cells in the eye caused by light. Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorption, emission, reflection and transmission. For most humans, visible wavelengths of light are the ones perceived in the visible light spectrum, with three types of cone cells (trichromacy). Other animals may have a different number of cone cell types or have eyes sensitive to different wavelengths, such as bees that can distinguish ultraviolet, and thus have a different color sensitivity range. Animal perception of color originates from different light wavelength or spectral sensitivity in cone cell types, which is then processed by the brain.