Colors

Demos and pictures illustrating EM waves, light, and colors

Propagation of EM wave

Prism and spectrum

Human eye

Retina of the eye

Color vision: Raw sensitivity of cones and rods

Color vision: Cone sensitivity, corrected for cone numbers and eye transparency

Color vision: Converting cone output into colors

Thin-film interference

Last Modified: October 14, 2010.
Vadim Kaplunovsky
vadim@physics.utexas.edu