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How does the human eye see color?

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The retinas in the eyes have receptors for color called cones(also known as cone cells). You have one that measures the amount red light, another measures green light, and the third measures light intensity.

Your occipital lobes in your brain actually process this information as color by deducing the amount of blue light from the other three factors.

The Cone cells measure Red light, Green light, or Blue light. Other cells called Rod cells measure intensity. Humans have full tricolor vision, not bicolor.

Most other mammals have only bicolor vision: Cone cells measure Yellow light or Blue light. Rod cells measure intensity.

Birds have Quadcolor vision: Cone cells measure Red light, Green light, Blue light, or Ultraviolet light. Rod cells measure intensity.

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