Why Monochromacy Would be a Serious Handicap

Every row displays the same set of Munsell color chips. The upper two rows
are illuminated by light from the blue sky with a color temperature of
16000 deg Kelvin. The lower two rows are illuminated by direct
sunlight with 4500 deg Kelvin. The center rows demonstrate the
brightness of the chips for a monochromat. Note the differences in
ordering for the chips. A monochromat is not able to maintain
background-object separation across light changes from shadow to
sunlight.
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