{"id":172948,"date":"2023-09-28T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-discover-a-100-year-old-math-error-changing-how-humans-see-color"},"modified":"2023-09-28T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T14:24:00","slug":"scientists-discover-a-100-year-old-math-error-changing-how-humans-see-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-discover-a-100-year-old-math-error-changing-how-humans-see-color","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover a 100-year-old math error, changing how humans see color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-a-100-year-old-math-error-changing-how-humans-see-color3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/discover.lanl.gov\/news\/0810-color-perception\" title=\"press release\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">press release<\/a>, Bujack, who creates scientific visualizations at Los Alamos National Laboratory, called the current mathematical models used for color perceptions incorrect and requiring a \u201cparadigm shift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>A surprise finding<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Being able to accurately model human color perception has a tremendous impact on automating image processing, computer graphics, and visualization. Bujack\u2019s team first set out to develop algorithms that would automatically enhance color maps used in data visualization to make it easier to read them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a press release, Bujack, who creates scientific visualizations at Los Alamos National Laboratory, called the current mathematical models used for color perceptions incorrect and requiring a \u201cparadigm shift.\u201d A surprise finding Being able to accurately model human color perception has a tremendous impact on automating image processing, computer graphics, and visualization. Bujack\u2019s team first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,1965,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-mapping","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}