Variations in how people perceive colors and how those same colors appear on TV, computers and other media have confounded broadcasters, Web designers and printers trying to reproduce lifelike hues

A. Kimball Romney,

has found a solution - a mathematical model that determines how the human eye sees color and allows it to be replicated in other formats

His model yields a 99.4 percent match

It also could advance the understanding of color blindness. The human retina consolidates information received its by many millions of photoreceptor cells and transmits them down the optic nerve, delivering information about the color of objects

While the physiological implementation of color coding was not within the scope of this study, Romney’s new model could provide a means to predict how individuals perceive colors and provide to clues to what goes awry in those with color blindness