Colour vision : $b Being the Tyndall Lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal InstitutionAbney, William de Wiveleslie, Sir
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Colour vision : $b Being the Tyndall Lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institution
Abney, William de Wiveleslie, Sir
Color vision
It seems impossible to believe that these mixtures, so dissimilar in
colour, could ever form a satisfactory match. This last equation might
have been derived from the two first, in which case it would have
stood--
137 G + 223 B = 342 R + 18 W.
By a completely green-blind the following mixtures were made--
251 R + 109 U = 62 W + 298 B,
and
277 G + 83 U = 107 W + 253 B.
In this case 363 Green are equivalent to 251 parts of Red mixed with 78
of White and 34 Black. The difference in the matches made by the two
types of colour blindness is very evident. In the one case the amount
of red required is much greater than the green, and in the other _vice
versâ_. Another instance may be given of colour matches made, by means
of discs, by a _partially_ green-blind person, whose case will be more
fully described when we treat of the luminosity of the spectrum to the
different classes of colour vision.
His matches were as follows--1st, That of the normal vision. 2nd,--
160 R + 80 G + 120 U = 72 W + 288 B.
The green was then altered to 200, when the following made a match--
65 R + 200 G + 95 U = 72 W + 288 B.
Using these two equations, we have the following curious result--that
120 G was matched by 95 R + 25 U. As the green disc is nearly twice as
luminous as the red to normal colour vision, this equation confirms
the result otherwise obtained, that his blindness to colour is a
deficiency in the green sensation. No mixtures of blue and red, or blue
and green, would match a grey formed by the rotation of the black and
white sectors.
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