Abstract Hering's Opponent-Colors Theory has been central to understanding color
appearance for 150 years. It aims to explain the phenomenology of colors with two linked …

This paper presents an art-inspired optimization algorithm, which is called Stochastic Paint
Optimizer (SPO). The SPO is a population-based optimizer inspired by the art of painting …

What determines how languages categorize colors? We analyzed results of the World Color
Survey (WCS) of 110 languages to show that despite gross differences across languages …

Color is a continuous variable, and humans can distinguish more than a million colors, yet
world color lexicons contain no more than a dozen basic color terms. It has been understood …

Do you wonder how movies–sequences of static frames–appear to move, or why 3-D films
look different from traditional movies? Why does ventriloquism work, and why can airliner …

Languages vary in their number of color terms. A widely accepted theory proposes that
languages evolve, acquiring color terms in a stereotyped sequence. This theory, by Berlin …

The lateral geniculate nucleus is thought to represent color using two populations of cone-
opponent neurons [L vs M; S vs (L+ M)], which establish the cardinal directions in color …

Each perceptual decision is commonly attached to a judgment of confidence in the
uncertainty of that decision. Confidence is classically defined as the estimate of the posterior …

Languages differ markedly in the number of colour terms in their lexicons. The Himba, for
example, a remote culture in Namibia, were reported in 2005 to have only a 5-colour term …

In dialogue, two color scientists introduce the topic of color opponency, as seen from the
viewpoints of color appearance (psychophysics) and measurement of nerve cell responses …