Light Perception in Humans

 

Click on the link below for more information on the human eye and light perception.

Visible Light and the Eye's Response

To use the Investigate!  RGB Characteristics of Color Widget at the bottom of the linked page click the submit box.  If the Widget takes too long to compute the amounts of red, green and blue in the color that you entered click submit again within the Widget that loaded.

 

Here is more interesting reading on vision.

Humans Reading_HowDoWePerceiveColor

Human Vision Extra_VisionInPrimates

Reading_EvolutionOfColorVision