He said we are able to recognise different colours because our cone cells, that are responsible for colour vision, are sensitive to certain lights. As we get older, our perception of colour can ...
Drag the slider to the left to see how an animal would see the same scene. Whereas human eyes contain three types of colour-detecting cells, called cones, dogs have just two. Their cone cells are ...
We can see about a million different colours Most humans are trichromats, which means our eyes have three different types of cone cells: red, green or blue, able to detect about 100 shades each.
Most people are trichromatic, meaning the three types of cone cells in their eyes are sensitive to three wavelengths of light – red, blue, and green. The combination of signals from these three ...