Shorter Articles and Notes two more Visual Theorems

Abstract

The basis of the widely held opinion that the spectral sensitivities of the mechanisms determining trichromacy must be linearly related to the spectral mixture functions is examined, and a proof from simple assumptions is stated. It is proved also that, on the van der Velden hypothesis of independent sensitive units, a spatial or temporal summation law of the form AIn = c implies a frequency-of-seeing curve of the form Q = I— e−KIn ( Q = probability of detecting a stimulus of size A and intensity I; n, c and K are constants).