Physicists and vision scientists are lining up behind a provocative claim: the rich color we call purple is not a property of light at all, but a story the brain tells itself. Light in the real world ...

People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Human eyes perceive visible light as this array of colors. You may notice that some colors you can ...

a) Illustration of the omnidirectional wavelength-tunable color device featuring a mechanochromic chiral liquid crystal elastomer (CLCE) and an electrically deformable dielectric elastomer actuator ...

The human eye does not actually see purple, as purple is not a color on the visual spectrum. Purple is a combination of wavelengths from opposite extremes of the spectrum, which technically deosn’t ...

Team develops a flexible and stretchable device capable of omnidirectional color wavelength control. A team at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), spearheaded by Professor Su Seok ...

Described as a kind of blue-green, the new color—named “olo”—can only be seen using lasers to manipulate certain ...

How can we measure visible light? The electromagnetic spectrum includes all forms of light energy, known as electromagnetic radiation. (1) Different types of electromagnetic radiation such as radio ...

Michael Murdoch is a member and former board member of the Inter-Society Color Council, part of the Color Literacy Project. People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, ...