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Monitors output color via modulating three color channels. The modulation can either vaguely correspond to how the original wavelength would activate the three

• ordu 4y ago
  I do not believe that human perception has anything to do with "true" colors. Such a complex system with so many quirks cannot be called the true way to deal with wavelengths. And yes it starts with cones in a retina, which wipe out most of information about a spectrum of a light. Some information got lost completely, some is mixed up, to a point where it is just vaguely represents the source signal. But if it seems to you too vague, then I can come to a point from a different angle: did you hear about tetrachromacy? "A study from 2010 actually suggests that a rare condition known as tetrachromacy exists in up to 12% of women in the world."[1] Don't you think that these women see colors in a "more true" way than other people? I personally think they are. It means, at least, that a more common way of a trichromacy is not the true way to see colors. It gives us not true colors, but some approximation which is very far from reality. You mentioned "most humans" as a reference point, so probably you believe that the truth can be established by a voting. I do not. I know that the objective truth is an unattainable ideal, but I do not believe that the majority of votes would be enough to establish an acceptable approximation to the ideal. It needs something more than that. [1] https://azretina.sites.arizona.edu/index.php/node/852 https://azretina.sites.arizona.edu/index.php/node/852