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Color in Nature: A Visual and Scientific Exploration

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This book answers all those little questions you have about colors. Why are blue feathers blackish when you look at them up close? What's that rainbow on the surface of the puddle? The answers described, though sometimes complex, are given in layman's terms with lots of pictures and graphics. It is so densely packed with information that I have to read it in very small bits. Everytime I do, I come away with more interesting tidbits about the physics, biology, and chemistry of color.

The only downside to the book is that the scope is so broad. Many concepts are merely touched on. There is just enough to whet your thirst before she moves on to the next topic.

I am interested in the subject of visual perception, color in nature and in landscape. How human being except nature or landscape (parks, gardens) on psychological level and the possible ways of landscape planning that includes the visual perception.