Articles Related to the REAL Primary Colors

From the color wheel being wrong to the language of color impacting what colors you can see, you will find some interesting articles related to color and perception here.

Everything You Know About Color is (Probably) Wrong

Light and the Eye – Color Vision (Advanced high school/college level explanation)

Video: Artist with Rare Vision Condition Sees the World Like Few Do (Tetrachromia – four kinds of light receptors instead of just three)

There’s Evidence Humans Didn’t Actually See Blue Until Modern Times (The link between language and color.)

Podcast: Radiolab – Colors (the entire podcast is about color starting with Newton, skip ahead to 46:25 to hear specifically about the connection between language and color)

 

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