How Do We See Color?

Have you ever wondered how we see color? This video provides a general overview on how we see color. In addition to the names referenced at the end of this video, Chanelle Adams also contributed to the development of the final script. #scicomm #color #wavelength #eyes #brain

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[nourah]

dude everyone is watching this for school I'm just here because this is actually interesting!

[kasturishindeyadav]

Beautifully explained ! I hope i saw all the colors in it :P

[naikmu]

Hats off to the presentation. Every word in the explanation is supported by animated graphics. complex Concepts are made very simple. Thank you . I learnt lot.

[Zanebrain]

How does our mind interpret this data such that we 'see' color?

[tinadavid]

I’m here because i have some homework due tomorrow and I’m doing everything last minute 😬

[r.anthony]

You could elaborate more on the way the signal of colour is created, but it's something I already know... Great video, quite informative!

[victoriaquartey]

I was so confused about colour before, but the was so helpful. Thank you

[KogaBrigaXTC]

We really don't know if any of us sees the colors the same way, not even the light itself. If it, by theory, hits the rods and cones and is being transformed into electrochemical impulses, we really haven't got even the slightest idea of what it really is, what the nature of it is. We only see the holographic image of it in the darkness of our skulls, the image our brain interpreted/created, but we don't know if it's really like that "out there".

[chanelyu]

i have a question, at 0:17 she said world of predators? what did she say at that moment?

[GrubKiller]

My mind just got fucking blown. Ever since I was a child, I've asked myself "I wonder if there a color out there that we've yet to discover or are not able to see."
This is fascinating indeed. It'd be great if humans involved in the very far future and developed an ability to see at least one more kind of "color".

[John-...]

Yes the mantis shrimp picasso could paint hypothetically could paint in more colors of the spectrum but we couldn't see it. Lol

[decadenerd]

My science teacher used this video for us to use our homework.

[maxcaulfield]

This video is so fascinating. I'm watching it for Photography class, but I find the information so fascinating. I just wish I could focus, but the weird music/noise in the background is making it impossible. Everything else about this video is perfect. Just the background noise...

[mrirvinglop]

So does this mean that there are more colors than we know of? 3 vs 12 cones--or am I over thinking it?

[nobodyknowsanything]

The thing with the mantis shrimp, though, is that we don't understand how it uses those receptors, so it might actually be the opposite. That is, it might only be able to see twelve colors total.

[jackarmstrong]

We do not "see" color. We experience color. Color is an evolved experience. There is no information about color in energy. Energy is merely correlated to the experience of color.

[Ricky]

thanks, but how do we percieve the indivisual RGB pixels on a TV? i close up to the tv, a yellow color from afar, is red and green up  close?, how do i see it as yellow??

[alejandrocj]

I'm just here because my teacher made me watch this thing

[bradleyspiteri]

so....what is the actual color of things???? If robots ever become self-aware, they wouldn't have human eyes what would they see?

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