Fundamentals of colour awareness: a literature review

摘要

A description of some of the basic or funda-mental aspects of the colour sensory mechanism?will be provided here, based on modern ideas and?literature, with reference speci?cally to the likely?origins and evolution of colour vision. ?The mo-lecular basis for colour awareness and the human?colour pathway will also be considered in some?detail. This paper intends to provide the theoreti-cal and philosophical basis for further papers that?will introduce a modern and original computer-?based ?method ?for ?more ?comprehensive ?colour?vision ?assessment. ? ?This ?new ?approach, ?to ?be?fully described in later manuscripts, may contrib-ute towards improvements in understanding and?knowledge of human colour perception and its?measurement, still perhaps a relatively under-ex-plored or neglected ?eld of study within optom-etry and ophthalmology.