Colour Psychology for Built Spaces

Literature reviews 1. The physics Hyper textbook - Colour https://physics.info/color/ This reading source, a website is dedicated to physics and its laws and concepts. The information gathered from here were some factual proven information from the discoveries of several people over the years.

Colour is not an intrinsic property of any object but the function of the human vision system. No objects have a colour but the perception of colour is the mere reflection of a particular wavelength of light from the objects surface that corresponds to a colour. Though this wavelength light is an objective reality, the perception of colour is a totally dependent on the eye of the beholder. The physics part of the light and colour ends when the light radiation leaves the surface of an object and from there begins the biology and physiology. The light radiation is received by the human eyes from the iris and processed at the retina with the help of many optic cells – rods and cones. Rods are present in millions and help identify light, shadow, shade and no light or darkness condition. It is the cones which have the property of deciphering the wavelength of light and help decoding the colour. This decoding information is further processed in the brain and the after effect is the colour image of an object that we view. “A given wave of light has the same frequency no matter who is viewing it, but the person perceiving the color will call it a word appropriate to their culture”; this suggests that the processing of the information from the rods and cones in the brain involves some psychology and neurocognition from memory as well. Talking about wavelength, the light we see from the sun or the spectrum has a 3