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Re:Color wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works by martian on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @02:36PM (#2166940)
In the early 20th century Albert Munsell did a series of empirical studies to determine exactly how people see colors relative to one another. The results are expected, but fascinating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsell_color_system

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Re:Color wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works by jacobolus on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @05:18PM (#2167692)
Why are the results expected?

(Also, I really need to expand the Munsell Wikipedia article, but Albert Munsell was dead before much of the empirical work that went into the 1929 Munsell Book of Color – by that point his son was running the company – or into the 1943 Munsell Renotations, which were based on the work of the Optical Society of America.)

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