Conclusion
LUDWIG, LENS
“I wept when I saw the color of the sea—how can a mere color make one cry?” (Ludwig Boltzmann, as quoted Greenstein, 1991). Color perception is profoundly important. Eyecare professionals are at once both willing to embrace tinted lenses to improve quality of life while being concerned that such lenses may degrade color perception. In this study, the impact of a short-wave filter on color appearance was assessed experimentally by tricolorimetry and theoretically by simulating a standard observer in a series of hyperspectral images acquired in natural scenes. Results indicate that the short-wave filtering lens that was evaluated generally does not appreciably alter color appearance as predicted by the model.