Part of a larger research project at the Bodleian Library, the study was instrumental in unravelling the artist's colour code and understanding how his palette evolved over time by comparing pigments from 125 paintings from the Flora and Fauna Graeca with those identified in both an early painted colour chart [1, 2, 5] and in a number of later paintings [6].
Simple-minded claims that there are "genes for" this or that trait - even the most obvious, such as eye-colour - without understanding that how a gene is expressed depends both on the active cooperation of many other genes, and on the cell within which the genome is embedded, are misleading.
To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of categorical perception of signal-based colouration in a bird, with implications for understanding avian colour perception and signal evolution in general.
Richard Abrams, Mir Ali, Paul Denton, Juan Igualada, Martin Groen and Eddy Gschwind of Ferro present an overview of the subject of colour with a view to understanding the complex tasks that colour engineers face.
Understanding the colour inheritance pattern could enable to develop chemical clues that may help for genetic purity analysis along with grow-out-test.
Understanding the proximate causes of variation in morphological traits like colour is critical to understanding their functions and evolution (Hill and McGraw, 2006).
This unique tolerance of HwHR for a chloride-free environment could further provide information in understanding the colour tuning in HR and the strategies adopted by early life forms to survive ever-changing environments.
Understanding the percepts elicited by spectral distributions in visual stimuli (i.e. understanding the perception of colour) is made especially challenging by the peculiar phenomenology of colour contrast and constancy effects.
Here was a man who viewed nature as a global force with corresponding climate zones across continents: a radical concept that still colours our understanding.
It must also be to do with the fashion for biography, the gossip culture, the cult of personality: that knowing that a writer committed suicide, or couldn't have children, or hated his mother, colours our understanding of the work on its own.
