It's the combination of the two extremes of our visible spectrum, so it does have a wave form (two interfering light waves), but not a pure wavelength.
Not really. It's a combination of two of the cones (The color detectors) in our eyes being triggered causing our brain to say "This must be magneta". Two wavelengths cannot interfere with each other to form a brand new color. That's like two apples falling together and making a lamp... @moth
Oh yeah, it all comes down to our color cones. That makes more sense. But it's still a combination of red and blue light being sensed at the same time, right?
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Technically, the colors that we see in objects are actually every other color but that, since the object absorbs all the other colors but reflects the one color we do see. @guest_ cue the 5 paragraph comment
I'm very confused by what you mean. How can it be "Every other color" and "Only the one color" at the same time.
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Our eyes absorb light bouncing off stuff. When every other color is absorbed and the only color actually bouncing off is say, red, then the only color our eyes are able to perceive is red.
We are seeing the absence of the color the object actually is. If that makes any more sense? A “blue” beam of light- so we take a clear bulb with “white” light, we pass it through a “blue” filter and we see “blue” light. The filter only allowed blue light to pass, it absorbed all other light. Meaning that the one color the filter actually isn’t- is blue. True black absorbs all spectrums of light, so an object that is truly black, is all those colors at once, but we see black instead because none of those colors were reflected. If is “white” it actually reflected all those colors meaning the object itself was none of those colors. If that makes any sense?
I hate talking about light and matter. It goes what my brain automatically assumes. I know what it is, I actually love the topic, but when someone says black is all the colors, it MAKES SENSE but my brain is like BUT IT'S NOT. Why can't we just stick to electrons moving down levels to emit light and gaining a level when absorbing it?
Another fun fact: Black technically does reflect light. It's just reflecting the light in a wavelength our eyes can't detect.
It’s not quite accurate to say it doesn’t “exist.” Magenta is an extra spectral color. Not a very rare thing. Pretty much any shade of black, brown, gray, or white are extra spectral colors too. Pinks, almost any purple, are also extra spectral. Most any “metallic” color is also extra spectral. In short a spectral color is any color that a human eye can observe under what we would call “normal” conditions, using only a single wavelength of light. If you picture a laser- a theoretically perfect red laser, you can see a beam where light has been removed except for the red wavelength. Now, if we wanted “white” light, we would have to add additional wavelengths of light such as blue or green. We have now created an extra spectral color as it uses more than one wavelength of light.
I had this argument with someone about shading. I am almost absolutely certain that shading like dark green or dark red are just an effect of the eye receiving less light and our brain interpreting that as "slightly darker". I can't make any sense of it as there just isn't a damn "dark green" on the electromagnetic spectrum.
Fun fact: Brown is just a dark orange <3
Bonus fun fact: You only see a laser pointer's laser because it's bouncing off the dust in the air. You don't see it in a vaccum.
Another fun fact: Black technically does reflect light. It's just reflecting the light in a wavelength our eyes can't detect.
Fun fact: Brown is just a dark orange <3
Bonus fun fact: You only see a laser pointer's laser because it's bouncing off the dust in the air. You don't see it in a vaccum.