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  2. Metamerism (color) - Wikipedia

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    Metamerism (color) In column 1, a ball is illuminated by monochromatic light. Multiplying the spectrum by the cones' spectral sensitivity curves gives the response for each cone type. In column 2, metamerism is used to simulate the scene with blue, green and red LEDs, giving a similar response. In colorimetry, metamerism is a perceived matching ...

  3. The dress - Wikipedia

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    The dress was a 2015 online viral phenomenon centred on a photograph of a dress. Viewers disagreed on whether the dress was blue and black, or white and gold. The phenomenon revealed differences in human colour perception and became the subject of scientific investigations into neuroscience and vision science .

  4. LGBT symbols - Wikipedia

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    Ace ring, worn on the right middle finger. The ace ring, a black ring worn on the middle finger of one's right hand, is a way asexual people signify their asexuality. The ring is deliberately worn in a similar manner as one would a wedding ring to symbolize marriage. Use of the symbol began in 2005.

  5. Symbols of Islam - Wikipedia

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    Green – The silk and pillows of Jannah are believed to be green. [4] [5] Muhammad's favorite color was green. [6] White – Considered the purest and cleanest color in Islam and the color of the flag of Muḥammad, the Young Eagle. [7] [8] Black – The color of Jahannam as well as the color of the Black Standard. [9] [10]

  6. Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate - Wikipedia

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    Berlin and Kay identified eleven possible basic color categories: white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray. To be considered a basic color category, the term for the color in each language had to meet certain criteria: It is monolexemic (for example, red, not red-yellow or yellow-red.)

  7. Eggplant (color) - Wikipedia

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    Eggplant is a dark purple [1] or brownish -purple [2] color that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplants. [3] Another name for the color eggplant is aubergine [2] (the French, German and British English word for eggplant). The first recorded use of eggplant as a color name in English was in 1915.

  8. Pride flag - Wikipedia

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    Aromantic flag. The aromantic pride flag consists of five horizontal stripes, which are (from top to bottom) green, light green, white, gray, and black. The flag was created by Cameron Whimsy [7] in 2014. [8] The green and light green stripes represent aromanticism and the aro-spectrum. The white stripe represents the importance and validity of ...

  9. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    Eye color. Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic trait determined by two factors: the pigmentation of the eye 's iris [1] [2] and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris. [3] : 9. In humans, the pigmentation of the iris varies from light brown to black, depending on the concentration of ...