Colors

Demos and pictures illustrating EM waves, light, and colors

• Measuring light speed: Fizeau–Foucault experiment
• Propagation of an electromagnetic wave:
  
• Electromagnetic spectrum: Wikipedia page
  
• 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: