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    Color is the visual perception of electromagnetic radiation described through categories like red, orange, yellow, etc. This perception is caused by the stimulation of photoreceptor cells in the eyes by light. The wavelength and intensity of light reflected from objects determines the color category. Color can also be identified numerically using coordinates in color spaces defined by standards organizations. Different species perceive color differently depending on the variations in their photoreceptor cells, such as bees being sensitive to ultraviolet light but not red. The science of color includes the study of color perception, color in materials, color theory, and the physics of visible light.

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    Color is the visual perception of electromagnetic radiation described through categories like red, orange, yellow, etc. This perception is caused by the stimulation of photoreceptor cells in the eyes by light. The wavelength and intensity of light reflected from objects determines the color category. Color can also be identified numerically using coordinates in color spaces defined by standards organizations. Different species perceive color differently depending on the variations in their photoreceptor cells, such as bees being sensitive to ultraviolet light but not red. The science of color includes the study of color perception, color in materials, color theory, and the physics of visible light.

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    Color is the visual perception of electromagnetic radiation described through categories like red, orange, yellow, etc. This perception is caused by the stimulation of photoreceptor cells in the eyes by light. The wavelength and intensity of light reflected from objects determines the color category. Color can also be identified numerically using coordinates in color spaces defined by standards organizations. Different species perceive color differently depending on the variations in their photoreceptor cells, such as bees being sensitive to ultraviolet light but not red. The science of color includes the study of color perception, color in materials, color theory, and the physics of visible light.

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    Color (American English), or colour (Commonwealth English), is the characteristic of visual

    perception described through color categories, with names such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue,


    or purple. This perception of color derives from the stimulation of photoreceptor cells (in
    particular cone cells in the human eye and other vertebrate eyes) by electromagnetic radiation (in
    the visible spectrum in the case of humans). Color categories and physical specifications of color are
    associated with objects through the wavelengths of the light that is reflected from them and their
    intensities. This reflection is governed by the object's physical properties such as light
    absorption, emission spectra, etc.
    By defining a color space, colors can be identified numerically by coordinates, which in 1931 were
    also named in global agreement with internationally agreed color names like mentioned above (red,
    orange, etc.) by the International Commission on Illumination. The RGB color space for instance is a
    color space corresponding to human trichromacy and to the three cone cell types that respond to
    three bands of light: long wavelengths, peaking near 564–580 nm (red); medium-wavelength,
    peaking near 534–545 nm (green); and short-wavelength light, near 420–440 nm (blue).[1][2] There
    may also be more than three color dimensions in other color spaces, such as in the CMYK color
    model, wherein one of the dimensions relates to a color's colorfulness).

    The photo-receptivity of the "eyes" of other species also varies considerably from that of humans
    and so results in correspondingly different color perceptions that cannot readily be compared to one
    another. Honeybees and bumblebees for instance have trichromatic color vision sensitive
    to ultraviolet but is insensitive to red. Papilio butterflies possess six types of photoreceptors and may
    have pentachromatic vision.[3] The most complex color vision system in the animal kingdom has been
    found in stomatopods (such as the mantis shrimp) with up to 12 spectral receptor types thought to
    work as multiple dichromatic units.[4]
    The science of color is sometimes called chromatics, colorimetry, or simply color science. It
    includes the study of the perception of color by the human eye and brain, the origin of color
    in materials, color theory in art, and the physics of electromagnetic radiation in the visible range (that
    is, what is commonly referred to simply as light).

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