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What does trichromatic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Involving three colours.
  2. Able to perceive three primary colours.
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People with trichromatic color vision see not only four primary colors but also various intermediate colors between them.
The human eye is trichromatic, as our color vision involves three distinct classes of cones.
Accordingly, the successful acquisition of fruits cannot be strongly tied to the evolution of routine trichromatic vision.
Theoretical modeling of fruit spectra into the trichromatic color space of catarrhine primates yielded similar results.
Similarly, we may have preferences for certain colors based on the primate trichromatic color visual system.
The theory was developed by Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, and is called the Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory.

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