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The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is a public university located on three urban campuses in Chicago. UIC ranks in the top 50 US institutions with strong research programs. The university boasts one of the largest medical schools in the US and operates Illinois’ major public medical center ...
The tendency of lighter achromatic surfaces to take on the hue of the illuminant under which they are viewed and darker achromatic surfaces to take on the complementary hue.
Industry:Physics
A color mixture in which the light from each component is modified by the others. Since pigments modify light by absorbing a portion of the incident light and thus each pigment will modify the light from the others, pigment mixtures are subtractive mixtures. (See additive mixture. )
Industry:Physics
A trait of an organism that is found in more than one state in a population. Also used for the existence of different forms of a gene in a population. For example, one well known polymorphism of color vision is the existence of both red-green dichromats and normal trichromats in the human population.
Industry:Physics
One of three cone types that contribute to human color vision. The L-cones have their peak spectral sensitivity at a longer wavelength than the other two cone types, the M-cones and S-cones.
Industry:Physics
Retinal interneurons (or neurons who communicate only with other neurons in the same part of the central nervous system) that connect the photoreceptors with the ganglion cells.
Industry:Physics
A color word (a) that is monolexemic (unlike "reddish-yellow"); (b) whose extension is not included in that of any other color term (unlike "scarlet", whose extension is included in "red"); (c) whose application is not restricted to a narrow class of objects (unlike "roan"); and (d) that is psychologically salient (unlike "puce"). A basic color term names a basic color category.
Industry:Physics
The color of a monochromatic or nearly monochromatic light, i.e. a color to be found in the spectrum. Other colors are extraspectral.
Industry:Physics
Yellow-blue color blindness. Tritanopia is thought to result from the loss of function of the S-cones. Tritanopia is much less common than either protanopia or deuteranopia.
Industry:Physics
