I don’t understand the conclusion that magenta doesn’t exist because it doesn’t fall on the ROYGBIV color spectrum. Like how can we say a color that is naturally occurring in nature, that we can see does not exist because it is not on a man-made color spectrum? Why is it not that the ROYGBIV color spectrum flawed instead?
Some say our eyes are tricked into seeing it because it doesn’t exist…why is it a trick if it is how we would naturally see it?
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Our eyes create colour when the receptors are stimulated in a certain way. The colour spectrum is wavelengths of light. Red has a wavelengths, also blue or yellow or violet. However we have interpretations for colours that doesn’t have one corresponding wavelength. Magenta is like this. Magenta happens when we get a lot of red and blue at the same time. As it turns out using the combinations of red, green and blue can trigger our receptors any kind of way. We can add green and red which triggers our receptors like yellow. All RGB at the same time triggers everything so we see white.
And we can put together combinations that doesn’t happen with wavelengths only. Like magenta, our eyes just happens to interpret red and blue that way.
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