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Solve the limitations of human color perception with spectro

Time: 2017-12-26

Solve the limitations of human color perception with spectrophotometer

 

I remember once, on a tantrum boy, I would ask if he "saw red." The puzzled look on his face told me that he was not familiar with the statement, but the angry color of his face made the origin of the term plain. Color vision is a part of our everyday life, which we often take for granted and rarely stop to think about.

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The visual world is made up of many color combinations that humans have been trying to control for years
Image credit: Flickr user Mary-Lynn
We live in a world of vision-dependent visualizations that tells us almost everything: what foods are safe to eat, which power line to connect to, and even how we determine a person's skin tone. We'll never stop to think about our dependence on the different hues and shades we see every day. The reality is that color perception has become a highly complex and intricate area of ​​scientific research, and our need to control color perception has prompted us to reach new standards in color measurement and technology. Our eyes are very complicated, but because the brain tries to filter out irrelevant information, we do not have the vision needed to accurately measure color. This is where colorimetric instruments and spectrophotometers are located.
 
 
 
Visual discrimination
 
Because of the various properties of color vision, humans have long recognized that visual discrimination is very subjective to the viewer's unique experience or perspective. The optical memory of the human eye is very limited, based on our own personal standards. Take the picture below for an example. One might say that the fruit in the bowl is purple and the other may say blue.
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One might think that the blueberries in this bowl are really blue, but purple and red hues can also be detected through various optical perceptions based on the perception and change of color.
Picture credit: Flickr user jeffreyw
In fact, people might describe their color perception of that bowl of berries in more than a dozen different ways, no wonder we were all puzzled. The color "blue" itself has been remodeled a dozen times. For example, since the birth of the standard box of crayons in 1903, Crayola? ™ Crayon has developed more than 19 different variants and original blue variants. Although this gives us more adjectives to describe different color shades, making the color of the labels very difficult to accurately match or classify.
 
This creates a huge problem when customers ask for products of a particular color, and expects it to match the shades or hues they want. According to our own color perception, it is almost impossible to accurately describe the color to another person or to be able to reproduce the color. As technology advances, we need a way to communicate the colors of different industries and learning areas to produce accurate results. Understanding and understanding of color vision has become a requirement of modern life.
 
What should we do? Use light to measure color
 
Researchers and scientists are continually striving to find ways to predict the appearance of colors, but can only be quantified under certain conditions. Over the past century, color measurement standards have been linked to the Commission Internationale de l'Eclariage (CIE), setting up colorimetric and color matching systems.
 
Development began in the 19th century when scientists were able to relate light to the human color vision receptors in the eye. As research progressed, scientists found that color perception fits all the basic rules of mathematics. With this basic knowledge, there is the development of many modern electronic display devices such as color television sets. Based on the red, blue and green primaries, you can now create a lot of color perception.
 
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Color technology links light research with visual receptors in the human eye, and scientists find it directly related to basic mathematical principles
Picture credit: Flickr user 55Laney69
This basic system works well when quantifying light-related colors, but when applying this information to most finished products in solid or liquid form, color measurement requires a higher level of technology. Quantizing object colors requires taking into account multiple variables that continuously interfere with the measurement, such as sample size, illuminance, surrounding color, and viewing angle. Colorimetry and spectrophotometry provide the answer, these new applications beyond the basic color assessment, conducted a comprehensive technical assessment.
 
Colorimetric instruments and spectrophotometers
 
Colorimetric instrumentation and spectrophotometers provide standardized conditions for consistency and repeatability of color-perceived measurements. Both types of instruments are used for color perception purposes for various applications. Colorimeters are suitable for many production and quality control applications by using fixed geometry optical viewing, a single light source and three photovoltaic cells, typically set to international standards. Spectrophotometers, on the other hand, perform better, use more sensors to separate light, and provide the ability to measure the spectral reflectance of an object. You will find this application is widely used for color matching and research applications.
 
Regardless of your application, color perception is important and the ability to accurately and consistently measure color is invaluable to many industries. Regardless of your needs, it is important to choose instruments that meet the development criteria and cover a wide range of markets and product uses. Yixuan has more than 10 years of reliability and experience in colorimetric and spectrophotometric measurement, and has all the development and changes of color technology. We provide color measurement solutions across multiple industries and research areas and are proud of the various applications of spectrophotometers. For answers to all color measurement needs, contact 3NH today.

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