In a dark room, I can faintly see the emissions of some IR remote control LEDs (same with the IR data port on some Palms & laptops), and can tell when a button is being pressed or data is being transmitted. Many people cannot. Is IR a color then, or not? I can see it, poorly, yes, but some IR falls within my range of visual perception.
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Very interesting!
Which LEDs are these, and what are their IR wavelength range. Can you specify the manufacture.
I would like to measure them as see exactly what spectral radiation they are emitting.
What is probably happening is that the LED is giving off both IR and visible wavelengths.
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'I'm pinging a color scientist on this. It will be interesting to hear what they have to say about this (science or semantics)?'
MMM should be very interesting
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" Visible color as defined by the CIE, not necessarily everyone on the planet. The Standard Observer if you will. "
Is this discussion not about ROMM a colour encoding space derived from CIE colorimetry??
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"Given that, I think it's a bit narrow-minded to define a "color" as something perceivable by human vision,..."
What or how would you define 'colour' then? This will be most interesting!