Color constancy
As chromatic adaptation is referred to in the physiology of the automatic white balance of the eye. It is a special adaptation process, which is made possible by the facilities of the retina with different types of light-sensitive cells.
This ability of the eye of the man takes a change of color temperature of ambient light subjectively barely noticed. So a white sheet of paper is considered both under Art, as well as in daylight approximate, for every person are different, the same as white.
See also: Transient Adaptation ( TA), white balance
In microbiology is called chromatic adaptation, the adaptation of the expression of the pigments of phycobilisomes to the light conditions in cyanobacteria.
- See
- Microbiology