Color appearance phenomena

Purkinje effectPurkinje effect

Purkinje effect

The Purkinje effect (sometimes called the Purkinje shift or dark adaptation) is the tendency for the peak luminance sensitivity of…

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Local color painting

In painting, local color is the natural color of an object unmodified by adding light and shadow or any other…

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Light reflectance value

In architecture, light reflectance value (LRV), is a measure of visible and usable light that is reflected from a surface…

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Helmholtz–Kohlrausch effect

The Helmholtz–Kohlrausch effect (after Hermann von Helmholtz and Rudolf Kohlrausch) is an entoptic phenomenon wherein the intense saturation of spectral…

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Chromatic adaptation

Chromatic adaptation is the human visual system’s ability to adjust to changes in illumination in order to preserve the appearance…

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Bezold–Brücke shift

The Bezold–Brücke shift is a change in hue perception as light intensity changes. As intensity increases, spectral colors shift more…

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Abney effect

The Abney effect describes the perceived hue shift that occurs when white light is added to a monochromatic light source.…

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Dichromatism

Dichromatism (or polychromatism) is a phenomenon where a material or solution's hue is dependent on both the concentration of the…

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Color appearance model

A color appearance model (abbreviated CAM) is a mathematical model that seeks to describe the perceptual aspects of human color…

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