I鈥檝e noticed that when an object is seen from a distance in daylight, the colours appear changed. For example, when I observed my wife walk round a lake in Switzerland, her pink top looked white and her blue trousers pink from 600 metres or more away. Do surfaces need to be sufficiently large in our field of view for us to perceive their colours correctly?
Neil Croll, Derby, UK
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