Re: Communicating colour to aliens

in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Danny Rich at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/21/03 9:34 PM:

> The spectral data describe the object - this is true but the spectral data
> do not describe the color.
> For example - there is a method in color vision testing known as haploscopic
> matching -- where each
> of the two eyes see a different stimulus.  In this experiment it is possible
> to place the same object in each field and illuminate with different sources
> to produce vastly different colors.

Danny,

Is haploscopic matching useful at all in chromatic adaptation research?

Roger Breton