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Old 09-11-2009, 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by jase View Post
Billions of colours...yes agree, no point. However 16 million colours is not out of the question. There was a study done some time ago across a large sample of people which determined a limit of 10 million colours were perceivable to the human eye. This probably assumes a healthy, young individual with 20/20 vision.
And direct comparison, I assume.
Seeing a difference in colours when two coloured areas are side by side or on top of each other is one thing.. and perceiving the colour hue without comparison is something completely different (and impossible of course)
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