Re: color perception differences between eyes

Dan Margulis wrote:
> In the last few years [...]  I am beginning to suspect that
> humans don't calibrate to a white point as such.
>
> [...]  it seems to
> me that the primary range that the eye relies on is not a light neutral 
> but rather a lightish warm gray, something on the order of 75L10a15b. 
> Some really interesting perceptual stuff goes on in that range; for one 
> thing, humans appear to see this range as significantly darker and more 
> colorful than a spectrophotometer does.

well ... this "lightish warm gray" seems to bear a striking resemblance 
to a (light) skin tone. Skin tones are very important memory colors. And 
 memory colors have a strong bearing on color perception and color 
constancy as is known.

Klaus Karcher
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