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Re: [Phys-l] rainbow



As Brian Whatcott pointed out, color perception by animals, including humans, involves signal processing by molecules in cells and not spatial separation of colors on the retina. In that sense our eyes are not CRTs. Wikipedia has a reasonable article on the topic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision

Richard Bowman
Bridgewater College, VA, USA