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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Your premise is wrong. There is no such conclusion. No one is saying a particular color doesn’t exist, what’s true is that it doesn’t exist *as a single wavelength of light.* The wavelengths of visible light range from 380 to 750 nanometers. On the visible light spectrum, each wavelength will produce a different color, but there’s no single wavelength that is magenta or purple or brown or many other colors.
Our eyes have 3 types of cells called cones that detect color. We have cones that are most sensitive to red light, cones that are most sensitive to green light, and cones that are most sensitive to blue light. Magenta is simply what we see when there’s a combination of red and blue light that stimulates our red and blue cones.
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