Marc Carter wrote:
> This is, I think, why we stopped calling cones "red" "blue" and "green."
> Those are colors, not physical properties of the cone systems.  Colors
> are psychological.  Spectral absorption (or reflection) is a physical
> property of materials.
>
>   
Well, there's also the fact that they don't have their peak 
sensitivities at the locations of red, blue, and green. It's more like 
violet, greeny-yellow, and yellowy-green (420, 534, 564 nm).

Chris

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