Chromatic adaptation

In physiology

As a chromatic adaptation (Greek-latin color matching ) is referred to in the physiology of the automatic white balance of the eye . This is a special adaptation process that is made possible by equipping the retina with different types of light-sensitive cells .

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Due to this ability of the eye, the person subjectively hardly perceives a change in the color temperature of the ambient light. Thus, a white sheet of paper is seen almost as white under both artificial and daylight , different for each person.

See also

• Transient Adaptation (TA)

In microbiology

In microbiology , chromatic adaptation refers to the adaptation of the expression of the pigments of the phycobilisomes to the light conditions in cyanobacteria .