Welcome to an Exploration of Colors!

Here you can explore the effects of sensor resolution on images - what you see depends on how many pixels ("megapixels") there are in the sensor.

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This applet Copyright © 2005 by Tom Whittaker. Based on the Tri-Color program created by John Pickle and Jacqueline Kirtley (Museum of Science, Boston MA) for the Global Systems Science project, and Copyright © 2002 by the Board of Regents of the University of California. Used with permission.