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In everyday life, we consider color to be a property of materials. A ripe tomato is red, the glass of a wine bottle is green, sulfur is yellow, snow is white, and Mary’s scarf is blue. We naturally appraise the colors of objects and materials in daylight. We commonly hold a piece of fabric in daylight at a window in order to judge its color. Normal daylight viewing is associated with the reported color of an object.
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Agoston, G.A. (1979). Color: Two Concepts. In: Color Theory and Its Application in Art and Design. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-15801-2_2
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