Scientists have finally solved a major flaw in a century-old theory of color perception first proposed by Erwin Schrödinger.

For the past six years, the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has been working with a color chemist to produce paint pigments that correspond to each nanometer of the visible light spectrum.

Olafur Eliasson, creator of the acclaimed Turbine Hall commission The weather project 2003, has made a new series of paintings responding to the work of J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851). Turner colour ...