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Name: pamela a mcdermott
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Date: Around 1993
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How do we see the object on a tv screen if only certain colors are used to compose them?


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The colors from the TV screen have the same effect on the receptors of the human eye as the original object did. The image of an orange on the TV may have a very different spectrum than the actual orange does, but the effect on the eye is the same. Colors that have the same effect on the eye are called metameres.

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