Colourful notions (TEFC)

Colour vision must have evolved to serve some practical purpose. Dr. Edwin Lord has a new theory that colour is not the property of objects at all but the result of complex calculations which the brain performs to ensure that objects can be recognized under a wide range of light conditions

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Credits

production company

BBC

producer

John Ross

Duration

00:50:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1984

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

323922

Language

English

Subject categories

Crafts & Visual Arts → Color

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Anatomy

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Eye

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Perception

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Color

Television

Television → Television series → Television series - Great Britain

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

U-Matic; Access Print (Section 1)

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United Kingdom, 1984

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