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Color
The features of human light perception and modern color theory

Here's very start of our journey to the visual music theory. First we learn about the phenomenon of Light, it's sources and it's main properties as an electromagnetic emission.

Then we dive deep into the physiology of Human color perception that defines the way we interpret colors of the nature.

Color models study shows the research and the maths behind modern methods of reproducing any given color on the screen or on printed media.

We list 12 Main colors names to make sure we can use them later as 12 notes correspondents. And here comes the Modal interplay approach that we use to expand average human music potential with visual aid.