title: Perceiving color across scale: great and small, discrete and continuous.
abstract: We generalize, to images with continuously varying colors, our previously published model for comparing color differences of spatially discrete visual fields (icons, symbols) of disparate sizes. Our model is structural, including scattering of light by the intraocular media, followed by sparse retinal cone cell sampling of each physiological color primary. We use our model to show that small subtense of less than half a degree drastically reduces the number of discriminable colors available within a color gamut. The proposed generalization predicts and explains appearance of color fields having a wide range of subtenses (from 1/8 deg to 44 deg in examples given).
authors: RobCarter@alum.RPI.edu
authors: Robert C
authors: RC
authors: Carter
authors: Louis D
authors: LD
authors: Silverstein