quantity
These physical or physiological quantifications of color, however, do not fully explain the psychophysical perception of color appearance.
source
Most light sources emit light at many different wavelengths; a source’s spectrum is a distribution giving its intensity at each wavelength.
brain
The color of an object depends on both the physics of the object in its environment and the characteristics of the perceiving eye and brain.
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