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Color perception

2007-03-21T13:56:29Z

SamTurner:

Color (or 'colour' in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Anguilla, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Fiji, Gambia, Gibralter, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Malta, Namibia, Pakistan, Rwanda, Samoa, Singapore, South Africa, Zambia, and Ireland) is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, white, etc. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light energy versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects, materials, light sources, etc., based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra.

Typically, only features of the composition of light that are detectable by humans (wavelength spectrum from 400 nm to 700 nm, roughly) are included, thereby objectively relating the psychological phenomenon of color to its physical specification. Because perception of color stems from the varying sensitivity of different types of cone cells in the retina to different parts of the spectrum, colors may be defined and quantified by the degree to which they stimulate these cells. These physical or physiological quantifications of color, however, do not fully explain the psychophysical perception of color appearance.

The science of color is sometimes called chromatics. It includes the perception of color by the human eye and brain, the origin of color in materials, color theory in art, and the physics of electromagnetic radiation in the visible range (that is, what we commonly refer to simply as light).

Poverty

2007-03-21T13:42:26Z

SamTurner: New page: Being poorly endowed in material possessions. Poverty is caused by homosexuality, drug use, liberalism, communism, atheism, islam, having coloured skin, growing...

Being poorly endowed in material possessions. Poverty is caused by [[homosexuality]], [[drug use]], [[liberalism]], [[communism]], [[atheism]], [[islam]], having [[coloured]] skin, growing your hair long if a man, wearing trousers if a woman, listening to [[rock music]], voting [[Democrat]], eating foreign food, disagreeing with the war in [[Iraq]], understanding a foreign language, owning fewer than four [[firearms]], not having sexual congress with your close relatives.

Wrath

2007-03-21T13:37:42Z

SamTurner: New page: Antique term for anger. Most often used to refer to one of the biblical Seven Deadly Sins. Wrath is a common reaction of weak-minded people when confronted with a situation of which th...

Antique term for anger. Most often used to refer to one of the biblical [[Seven Deadly Sins]]. Wrath is a common reaction of weak-minded people when confronted with a situation of which they disapprove and over which they have little or no control. See [[Conservapedia]].

Optimist

2007-03-21T13:35:15Z

SamTurner: New page: A person who demonstrates or practices optimism. An '''optimist''' looks for the positive side of a situation and anticipates the most positive outcome of a venture. For example, an '...

A person who demonstrates or practices [[optimism]]. An '''optimist''' looks for the positive side of a situation and anticipates the most positive outcome of a venture.

For example, an '''optimist''' might use an open [[Wiki]] to create a controlled and biased set of articles which present a narrow and disingenuous view of the world, and yet anticipate that this Wiki would not be used by people with a broader and more educated stance.

Cretan

2007-03-21T13:31:38Z

SamTurner: New page: An inhabitant of Crete. Or the spelink of cretin by a cretin.

An inhabitant of [[Crete]]. Or the spelink of [[cretin]] by a [[cretin]].