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From: wdrdsw@thor.cf.ac.uk (David Wooding)
Subject: Errors in the Color space FAQ
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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 11:08:08 GMT
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|Eleanor Howick <e.howick@irl.cri.nz> wrote:
|>David Bourgin writes:
|>
|>> A color is defined from human eye capabilities. If you consider a normal
|>> human being, his vision of a color will be the same as for another normal 
|>               ---
|>>being.
|>
|>I hope he dosen't consider women abnormal. This kind of thing irritates.

He's French. Not that French people are inherently sexist, but I suspect 
he's writing in what is, at least, a second language. But I agree with 
you. It's unnecessary.

The sad thing is he is wrong anyway. A colour is not defined soley from 
the eye, but the entire colour processing system of the brain, and it is 
unjustifiable to assert that all people with "normal" colour vision will 
have the same "vision of a colour". They may have the same colour 
discrimination, they may call things by the same names, but that's about as 
far as you can go (enter the philosophers).

Dave.

-- 
Dr.David Wooding (wooding@cardiff.ac.uk)  UWCM, Cardiff, Wales, UK
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