trichromacy
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thumb|310px|Close-up of a trichromatic in-line shadow mask [[CRT display, which creates most visible colors through combinations and different levels of the three primary colors: red, green and blue]]
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- Humans and other animals that are trichromats
- Types of cones specifically found in primates
- Mechanism of trichromatic color vision
- See also
- References
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thumb|310px|Close-up of a trichromatic in-line shadow mask [[CRT display, which creates most visible colors through combinations and different levels of the three primary colors: red, green and blue]]
Trichromacy or trichromatism is the possession of three independent channels for conveying color information, derived from the three different types of cone cells in the eye. Organisms with trichromacy are called trichromats.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “trichromacy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.