Steven M. Boker
Department of Psychology
The University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
This article presents a rethinking of the problem of representation of both the space of photic stimuli and the perceptual color space within the context of the theory of Riemann manifolds. The color perception mapping function is suggested to be highly similar to statistical problems in which distributions need to be uniquely characterized with a few invariants. An argument is presented that perceptual color space needs to be represented in at least four dimensions in order to accurately capture and discriminate the distributions of photon energy quanta present in real world objects.