1. ICS 61 – Light, Color, and the Mind

2. Light

4. Thank you, Mr. Newton

5. Color Wheel

6. Isaac Newton’s Color Circle

7. Color Perception

8. Rods and Cones

9. But actually, color is determined by our brain, not our eyes. (And not by the frequency of the light waves hitting our eyes.) People with very different quantities of cones perceive the same colors. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051026082313.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051026082313.htm The same color perception can be caused by different spectra of light.

10. And, illusions

11. The squares marked A and B are the same shade of gray. http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html

12. The squares marked A and B are the same shade of gray. http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html

13. http://brainden.com/color-illusions.htm

16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=S9dqJRyk0YM Pink? Fuschia? Magenta?

17. Color perception, like games and like all of art and much of life, is an experience.