[Tig] color vision (article)

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Mon, March 19, 2007 10:44 pm, Arnell Patscott wrote:
> Along the lines of this thread, I wanted to point out that in the March issue
> of Scientific American there is a paper on Illusory Color and the Brain. They
> make the point that images that start out as color, and are turned B&W loose
> .....

Going to have to try to find that Arnold.  That's one magazine almost always
worth
buying (if you're not in Brasil, where it costs about 25 dollars).

There have been a number of studies done on the artistic differences between film
and SD/HD video, where among the more thoughtful, and evocative cinematographers,
there was a consensus that film's "detachment" from the "reality of the image"
contributes so much to our sense of art, that film will always be these
artists' first
choice as a recording medium.  (caveat: the day may be arriving where the best
video
combined with the best post-production will create a similar evocative removal
from
reality).

I think the same principle can be applied to black and white (grayscale)
images versus
color images: since we (other than achromats-- which I will now read up on,
thank you
Jeremy) normally see in color, black and white is a further removal from
reality, that
can contribute to a sense of suggestion, expression, poignancy.

Rob

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