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There are certain parallels
worthy of mention between the
perception of lightness and the
perception of chromatic huesΓÇöΓÇô
the colors of the visible
spectrum. Color constancy
occurs if light of predominantly
one frequency is used as the
source of illumination. Then, a
colored region will no longer
reflect light to the eye of the
same frequency that it would
when receiving white light.
Nonetheless the region will
continue to appear in its
normal color. Just as in the
case of lightness constancy,
the explanation concerns the
fact that the chromatic
illumination also falls on the
area surrounding the colored
region so that the relation
between the two is unchanged
in certain respects. There is
also a parallel with respect to
the shades and tints of colors.
Colors are said to vary along
three dimensions: the hue
itself (based on the frequency
of the light), the saturation or
pureness of color of a given hue
(based on the extent to which it
is mixed with white light), and
the degree of lightness (based
on the lightness or darkness of
that white-light mixture). If
lightness is based on ratio, and
it seems that it is, then the
appearance of a color should be
affected by variations in the
lightness or darkness of a
neighboring or surrounding
region. For example, an orange
disk can be made to appear
brown simply by increasing the
intensity of white light in a
surrounding ring. Few people
realize that brown is simply a
shade of orange.