I find it interesting that our eyes include the green wavelength instead of a distribution that's more in the middle of the blue and red wavelength. My guess is that this has something to do with just how prevalent green is in our world given all the plant-life that is green due to chlorophyll. So it makes more sense to disproportionally account for it
omijimo
I agree, I'm sure our ancestors needed to find the wild lettuce and stuff to survive and it just passed over
jamespear
This distribution makes me think of what other colors we may have a greater or less quantal efficiency in due to our evolution and what colors we see more on a day to day basis than others.
aayushg55
I would be interested in whether the spectral response of human cone cells may differ between people due to genetics or other factors and how that would cause people to have slightly different perceptual experiences of the same environment.
noah-ku
Unlike a single type of detector, the human eye uses three types of cone cells—S, M, and L—each with distinct spectral response curves for short (blue), medium (green), and long (red) wavelengths, respectively. The graph illustrates these responses and indicates how our vision interprets different wavelengths of light. The mathematical integrations (S, M, L) represent the process by which each type of cone cell contributes to the overall perception of color in the light spectrum.
ninjab3381
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~scottds/vision/colorvis.htm
From this article I read that the overlap of 2 spectral response curves leads to being able to differentiate wavelength based on color. If only one of the cone cells is activated, its difficult for the eye to tell the wavelength of color but then 2 different cone cells being activated allows one to give a larger spectrum of wavelengths because they combine to form different colors!
I find it interesting that our eyes include the green wavelength instead of a distribution that's more in the middle of the blue and red wavelength. My guess is that this has something to do with just how prevalent green is in our world given all the plant-life that is green due to chlorophyll. So it makes more sense to disproportionally account for it
I agree, I'm sure our ancestors needed to find the wild lettuce and stuff to survive and it just passed over
This distribution makes me think of what other colors we may have a greater or less quantal efficiency in due to our evolution and what colors we see more on a day to day basis than others.
I would be interested in whether the spectral response of human cone cells may differ between people due to genetics or other factors and how that would cause people to have slightly different perceptual experiences of the same environment.
Unlike a single type of detector, the human eye uses three types of cone cells—S, M, and L—each with distinct spectral response curves for short (blue), medium (green), and long (red) wavelengths, respectively. The graph illustrates these responses and indicates how our vision interprets different wavelengths of light. The mathematical integrations (S, M, L) represent the process by which each type of cone cell contributes to the overall perception of color in the light spectrum.
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~scottds/vision/colorvis.htm From this article I read that the overlap of 2 spectral response curves leads to being able to differentiate wavelength based on color. If only one of the cone cells is activated, its difficult for the eye to tell the wavelength of color but then 2 different cone cells being activated allows one to give a larger spectrum of wavelengths because they combine to form different colors!