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Re: [Phys-L] Sliding Door Sliders as Optical Filters?




> On Sep 5, 2023, at 06:32, John Denker via Phys-l <phys-l@mail.phys-l.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 3) Beware that the human eye is not a photometer. Reeeeally not.

Right, I discovered that when I foto’d the sky to show the rotation of the 
stars when I was in Kenya,  walking distance from the equator. The stars varied 
in non-white.  

Re colour constance:  very obvious when one has a lamp with white and orange 
LEDs.  One can’t “tell” which after a few mins.  

bc ….  wonders if molecular concentrations still important in sun scatter.  
Thinks was Gamow who posited this.  


> You
> perception of a "white" thing in a scene depends not only on that
> thing but also other things. Try googling for
>   perception discounting the illuminant
> which will lead you to things like this: