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Figure 2.9. A beautiful colour view of the Great Barrier Reef. Image courtesy of Nick

Jenkins. c 2010 Nick Jenkins. All rights reserved.

is also an obvious risk that the variation in sensation performance in a population
does not envision the important sensations.
It seems that our strongly limited colour perception is far from the
performance of species that has evolved specific properties to further develop
the physical eye vision capabilities. Perhaps the solution can be to adopt to an
artificial interface, where the use of technology improvements may increase the
performance and provide us with a richer and more flavoured life. However, when
minimising our efforts to develop our abilities on our own by using supportive ar-
tificial abilities we do it at the sacrifice of taking an active part in human evolution.
The reality may be that the individual may not experience the colours in a mas-
terpiece of art, like a painting with colourful expressed stroke of the brush without
external supportive devices. Maybe painters have used the illusions to explore the
contrast of colours by generating spatial relationships. The techniques of express-
ing colours are generally based on the use of colour temperature by advance warm
colours that will recede the cold colours.
This technique has been used by painters, since the time of Leonardo da Vinci.
He used this technique to create a special colour expression in the painting Mona
Lisa. In this painting, the woman's figure is composed primarily of warm hues,
while the background is composed primarily of cooler blues and greens. This dis-
tinction in colour temperature may have an intention to place the person in ad-
vance of the background, and may have the intention to explore colours in relation
to each other. The intention to strengthen parts in a painting or any indeed other
subjects may not be appreciated by people with certain colour deficiency.
The painters are known to use specific techniques to explore the varieties in
the nature and to discover the intensity in the surrounding colours, e.g. finding the