The Colors of Interior Design and Emotional Association

In this day and age, the way homes, work spaces, and other buildings appear on the inside can be very reflective of the environment we are walking into, or at least this is what our brains cause us to believe. The colors involved in interior design can bring out different emotions in people without us…

Magenta Doesn’t Exist?

Recently in class we learned about the mantis shrimp and its ability to see color like no other animal on the planet. Mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda) are brightly colored crustaceans that live on reefs. They are commonly known among fisherman as “thumb splitters” because of their hammer-like claws which can deliver blows that accelerate as fast…

Vision in Mantis Shrimp

    Color vision is a complex and interesting subject to learn more about because of how significant it is in our understanding and perception of the world and how diverse color vision is in our world. I find it fascinating to think about the varieties of colors we see and how they make up our…

A Spectrum Beyond the Eye

            One topic in this class that immediately intrigued me was tetrachromacy. I’ve always had the question of “What if what I view as blue, someone else views it as what I see as purple?”. A question like that may sound ridiculous to an adult who has had no background in the dynamics of vision…