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The presence or absence of light is what causes the sensation of color. Light is a physical phenomenon, but color depends on the interaction of light with our visual apparatus and is therefore a psychophysical phenomenon.
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Velho, L., Frery, A., Gomes, J. (2009). Fundamentals of Color. In: Image Processing for Computer Graphics and Vision. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-193-0_4
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