How this computer scientist is rethinking color theory

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Kenneth R. Rosen is an independent journalist based in Italy and the author of “Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs.”

BENEATH A CLEAR SKY and a high sun, a regular human eye can see nearly the entire visible color spectrum. Remove direct sunlight, and a reflection offers only a sliver of the rainbow. But despite darkness distorting our points of reference, we can still determine color in shadow. Many factors influence the hues we detect: our eyes, our brains, the air, objects the light bounces from, Earth’s geometry, and even our visual memories.

It helps translate into pixels the ways by which a human eye distinguishes different shades, like the way you’re able to recognize this text as black and the background as white without a blur. For Bujack, the contours of this space are familiar. She studied mathematics at Leipzig University in Germany, where a course on image processing propelled her into a subset of that field.

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