Colour Science & Perception
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Cone density, out from the centre of gaze

Quoted landmarks with logarithmic interpolation between them: 199,000 cones per square millimetre at the fovea, 9,500 at ten degrees — a factor of 21. The shaded bands are the two standard observers' fields. The 2° observer averages over a region whose density falls by 3.3× between its centre and its edge and the 10° observer by 12.4×, which is what "a 10° field" contains and is why the two sets of matching functions are different shapes rather than the same shape scaled.
Cone density, out from the centre of gazeQuoted landmarks with logarithmic interpolation between them: 199,000 cones per square millimetre at the fovea, 9,500 at ten degrees — a factor of 21. The shaded bands are the two standard observers' fields. The 2° observer averages over a region whose density falls by 3.3× between its centre and its edge and the 10° observer by 12.4×, which is what "a 10° field" contains and is why the two sets of matching functions are different shapes rather than the same shape scaled.0°2°5°10°15°20°cones per mm², logarithmiceccentricity, degrees from fixation2° field10° field0.29 mm per degreeCIE 1931 2° observer

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Colour stops at the edge of sight

Cone density falls twenty-one-fold between the centre of gaze and ten degrees out, and the three channels give out at three different rates — so a colour difference in the periphery does not merely shrink, it turns. At the exact point of fixation there are no short-wavelength cones at all.

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A difference has no place

A colour difference formula answers a question about two patches somebody is looking straight at. Move the same pair ten degrees into the periphery and a third of it is left — and it has turned twenty-four degrees of hue, because the three channels give out at three different rates.

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