What happens if a light source would slowly decrease the wavelength from visible to nonvisible light?

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Ie if we had a light that could emit light from purple to UV. Do we see an instant change from purple to nothing or does it slowly fade out?

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I’d imagine it would be similar to watching something glowing red hot to just emitting infrared radiation. Just look at a piece of wood in an oven, when the fire has nearly died out, blow some air on it and see it start to glow again, and then it stops after a while.

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