color has the ability to inspire, excite, soothe, heal and even agitate. this is particularly true for children, who can be extra sensitive to color's impact. so the importance of picking out just the right color for a young child's room shouldn't be underestimated. when choosing colors to use for your rooms home it's important to think about the mood you want to create and ...

color has the ability to inspire, excite, soothe, heal and even agitate. This is particularly true for children, who can be extra sensitive to color's impact. So the importance of picking out just the right color for a young child's room shouldn't be underestimated. When choosing colors to use for your rooms home it's important to think about the mood you want to create and whether you want it ...

The phenomenon of warmer colors appearing nearer in depth to viewers than cooler colors has been studied extensively by psychologists and other vision researchers. The vast majority of these studies have asked human observers to view physically equidistant, colored stimuli and compare them for relative depth. However, in most cases, the stimuli presented were rather simple: straight colored lin...

What determines how languages categorize colors? We analyzed results of the World Color Survey (WCS) of 110 languages to show that despite gross differences across languages, communication of chromatic chips is always better for warm colors (yellows/reds) than cool colors (blues/greens). We present an analysis of color statistics in a large databank of natural images curated by human observers ...

Categories can affect our perception of the world, rendering between-category differences more salient than within-category ones. Across many studies, such categorical perception (CP) has been observed for the basic-level categories of one's native language. Other research points to categorical distinctions beyond the basic level, but it does not demonstrate CP for such distinctions. Here we pr...

We present high spatial resolution BIHK@-band imaging of a sample of ultralu(FWHMB 0A.3È0A.8) minous infrared galaxies ULIGs) with ““ cool ÏÏ mid-infrared colors (L ir[ 1012 L _ ; ( f25 km/f60 km\ 0.2), which select against active galactic nucleusÈlike (AGN-like) systems, a complementary sample to the ““ warm ÏÏ ULIGs of Surace and coworkers. We Ðnd that all of the cool ULIGs are either advance...

Artists often want to change the colors of an image to achieve a particular aesthetic goal. For example, they might limit colors to a warm or cool color scheme to create an image with a certain mood or feeling. Gamut masking is a technique that artists use to limit the set of colors they can paint with. They draw a mask over a color wheel and only use the hues within the mask. However, creating...