lightr: import spectral data and metadata in R
Hugo Gruson, Thomas White, Rafael Maia · The Journal of Open Source Software · 2019
Living organisms wildly differ in their ability to see colours (Osorio & Vorobyev, 2008).For this reason, colour science relies on the use of objective measurements of reflectance, transmittance, or aborbance spectra rather than human vision (Bennett, Cuthill, & Norris, 1994;Cuthill, Bennett, Partridge, & Maier, 1999;Eaton, 2005).These spectra are then used in vision models that allow scientists to predict how a given object is seen through the eyes of a given species (e.g., how a male bird is seen by a potential mate).This is the basis of all studies in for example the study of the evolution of colours of animals and plants as communication signals