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IN a previous article in NATURE1, attention was directed to the possibility that the physiological basis for colour vision might lie in the relative responses of the rods and the cones. A curve was plotted to show the relationship between wave-length and the summation of the rod and cone responses at each wave-length. The characteristics of this curve suggested that it had some affinity with the well-known colour triangle. Further analysis of this phenomenon may not be without interest and also provide answers to certain questions raised by Prof. H. Hartridge in his recent communication2.
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WILLMER, E. PHYSIOLOGY OF COLOUR VISION. Nature 151, 632–635 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151632a0
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