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hue: a standalone construct

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hue1 CONSTRUCTColor hueHURVICH · UNIQUE HUES

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Color science and vision

the attribute placing a color on the circle of reds, yellows, greens, and blues, distinct from saturation and brightness.

In color science, hue is the attribute of a color that places it on the circle of reds, yellows, greens, and blues: it is the which-color dimension of a perception, held apart from how vivid the color looks (its saturation) and how light or dark it is (its brightness). Hurvich and Jameson's 1957 An opponent-process theory of color vision quantified how the visual system builds the hues from opposed red-green and yellow-blue signals, which is why four unique hues stand out as looking pure. The referent is a felt property of seen light, tied to a dominant wavelength and read off the color circle, and it has nothing to do with a shouted alarm raised to chase a fleeing suspect.[1]

Unit
A position on the color circle, tied to a dominant wavelength
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Matched against reference colors, or read from wavelength and colorimetric coordinates such as the CIELAB hue angle

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color4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructssaturation4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructsspectrum4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

  1. Hurvich, L. M., & Jameson, D. (1957). An opponent-process theory of color vision. Psychological Review, 64(6, Pt. 1), 384–404. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0041403

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