What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. - Thomas Hewitt Key Concept 1 : Color Perception ============================= Idea: ===== White light contains an equal amount of light of all frequencies. Laser light is usually very pure and all photons have almost identical frequenceis. Each color is recorded by the eye as the level of excitation it produces on certain cells in the eye. Hence, the eye can perceive colors that are not in the spectrum produced by a rainbow. For example if you send a mixture of red and blue photons so that both red and blue cones in the retina are excited you eye sees it as magenta. A computer graphics monitor emulates visible colors and the human eye by lighting pixels with a combination of red, green, and blue light.