Bottle model of colour vision with the colour brown as an example

European Journal of Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 611-620

  Erjavec, Matej ^a   Vaupotič, Nataša ^b,c  

^a Grammar School   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; BRAIN; COLOR; COMPOSITION; CONES; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ABSOLUTE FILLING; COLOUR VISION; LIGHT FALLING; SPECTRAL COMPOSITION;

VISION;

EID: 33646363603     PISSN: 01430807     EISSN: 13616404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/27/3/013     Document Type: Article

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