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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Magenta exists, however it isn’t part of the “visible spectra” by itself.
Things that look magenta reflects/radiates (long wavelength) red and (short wave length) blue light, whilst not really giving of light from in between on the spectra.
There are other [extra-spectral colors](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_color#Extra-spectral_colors) too.
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