▲ 15 ▼ What color is a tennis ball? (www.vox.com) submitted 1 month ago by koavf@lemmy.ml to c/color@lemmy.ml 21 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] koavf@lemmy.ml [S] 0 points 4 weeks ago (3 children) Purple is not a wavelength. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] tyler@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children) lol yes it is. wtf is this claim? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] koavf@lemmy.ml [S] 0 points 1 week ago Are you now aware that there are non-spectral colors? permalink fedilink source parent [–] koavf@lemmy.ml [S] 0 points 3 weeks ago No, it's not. Nothing on that graphic is purple. Definitionally, purple is an interference of red and blue/violet light. You just don't know what you're talking about. Magenta isn't a wavelength. Grey isn't a wavelength. Salmon isn't a wavelength. Impossible colors aren't wavelengths. The only colors that are wavelengths are pure, perfectly saturated spectral colors. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tyler@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children) lol yes it is. wtf is this claim? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] koavf@lemmy.ml [S] 0 points 1 week ago Are you now aware that there are non-spectral colors? permalink fedilink source parent [–] koavf@lemmy.ml [S] 0 points 3 weeks ago No, it's not. Nothing on that graphic is purple. Definitionally, purple is an interference of red and blue/violet light. You just don't know what you're talking about. Magenta isn't a wavelength. Grey isn't a wavelength. Salmon isn't a wavelength. Impossible colors aren't wavelengths. The only colors that are wavelengths are pure, perfectly saturated spectral colors. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] koavf@lemmy.ml [S] 0 points 1 week ago Are you now aware that there are non-spectral colors? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] koavf@lemmy.ml [S] 0 points 3 weeks ago No, it's not. Nothing on that graphic is purple. Definitionally, purple is an interference of red and blue/violet light. You just don't know what you're talking about. Magenta isn't a wavelength. Grey isn't a wavelength. Salmon isn't a wavelength. Impossible colors aren't wavelengths. The only colors that are wavelengths are pure, perfectly saturated spectral colors. permalink fedilink source parent