How Can Color Theory Modeling Be Applied to Avian Species Perception?

[curly_ebhc]

I understand the basics of color theory and I need to explain it to some graduate level bio-students. Now I need to incorporate the biological funciotions involved in this process and relate it to avian species. Now I have a brief understand of the human eye abosorbtion curves which peak at 420, 534, and 584 nm respectivley. Now does anybody know a way to model the photorector response from the absorption curves for any particular incoming wavelength of monochromatic light. I was thinking of using a mathematical program to model the curves. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

 

[Andy Resnick]

The photoreceptors have broad absorption peaks; color discrimination can be done by ratios.