Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Changes in color perception can occur for several reasons. One common factor is structural shifts in the eye. For instance, a ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

A project to improve data visualization ended up overturning a century-old model of color space that underpins industry standards for color everywhere from digital displays to paint. The opportunity ...

Bevil Conway, an artist and neuroscience researcher at the National Institutes of Health, is crazy about color. He particularly loves watercolors made by the company Holbein. “They have really nice ...

First there was "the dress," then there was the sneakers, now there's a debate over the color blue. If you've ever argued with a friend over whether something is blue or green, you're not alone. A new ...

In many areas, the environment fluctuates greatly depending on the season, and animals living in those areas must adapt to the changing environment. A research group has found that color perception of ...

Modeling human color perception enables automation of image processing, computer graphics and visualization tasks. "Our original idea was to develop algorithms to automatically improve color maps for ...

Color perception drifts away from neutrality during wakefulness and is restored during sleep, suggests a research abstract that will be presented Wednesday, June 9, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at ...

Discover how seasonal changes influence color perception changes, particularly in defining yellow shades, due to environmental shifts. There’s a seemingly infinite variety of colors in the world, but ...

A novel algorithm to simulate the color appearance of objects under chromatic illuminants has been proposed by Ichiro Kuriki of Tohoku University. The figure shows the result of applying this ...

Another entry for the ever-expanding category of "the brain is a very strange place" posts. A paper in PNAS suggests that what we call a color may influence how we perceive it. The image below shows a ...

Here’s a quick color perception test that will let you know if you can really get your colors right. Being able to render colors accurately is definitely a big deal for photographers, which is why we ...