How humans see color

  • Isaac Newton in 1670...
    proved that white light is a mixture of all colored lights.
  • Thomas Young ...
    proposes that our human visual system is tristimulus, (Red, Green, Blue)
  • 6.8 million cones, responsible for vision at daytime and evoking color vision
  • 115 million rods, which function mainly at night time and providing peripheral vision

Human eye sensistivity