Scientists Solve 100-Year-Old Schrödinger Mystery About Color Perception

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Los Alamos researchers used geometry to strengthen Schrödinger’s century-old color perception theory.
They formally defined hue, saturation, lightness, and the neutral axis in perceptual color space.
The new approach fixes weaknesses in the old model and improves how perceptual color differences are measured.
The work gives color science a firmer mathematical foundation for visualization and software design.

