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Nature 397, 473-475 (11 February 1999) | doi:10.1038/17216

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Colour vision:  A patchwork of cones

Heinz Wässle1

If you look closely at the screen of a colour television, you'll see a precise mosaic of red, green and blue pixels. At a normal viewing distance, however, our eyes cannot resolve these individual pixels and, depending on their relative intensities, we perceive thousands of different colours.

  1. Heinz Wässle is at the Max Planck Institut füsr Hirnforschung, Deutschordenstrasse 46, D-60528 Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
    e-mail: Email: waessle@mpih-frankfurt.mpg.de