This document discusses various topics related to visual information processing and color vision, including:
- Polarized light and how polarization occurs through reflection and refraction
- Theories of color vision from Alberti, Cennini, Newton, Goethe, and Hering
- Evidence for opponent color theory from fish recordings and studies of the lateral geniculate nucleus
- The three types of cones and how color is processed in the visual cortex and beyond striate cortex
- Tests for color blindness like the Ishihara chart
19. Goethe’s Color theory 1810
“That I am the only person in this
century who has the right insight
into the difficult science of colors,
that is what I am rather proud of,
and that is what gives me the
feeling that I have outstripped
many.”
Goethe studies after-images,
colored shadows and Zür Farbenlehre (Theory of Colors)
complementary colors