First of all, I don’t understand why indigo and violet are split… why not just call it purple? Ok, not my question.
Colors of the rainbow all make sense to me except purple.
Red – orange – yellow…makes sense that orange is between red and yellow, and it’s the combination of those two primary colors, nice transition
This follows with green, blue. Green is between yellow and blue.
Now… if purple aka indigo and violet are a combination of blue and red, how can it be on the opposite end of red (very different frequency) and outside the frequency range of blue? I would expect a secondary color’s frequency to be between the two primary colors that create it
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White light, is actually a combination of all colors combined – all light at once, will create white light.
Light is actually waves, much like the waves at the ocean. Lets call the distance between each wave, the wavelength. This wavelength can be short, it can be long, and anything in between.
Our eyes, can not see all lightcolors. The longest wavelength of light we can see is actually red (the very start and top of the rainbow, which also is the longest arc this way). An example of lightcolor with longer waves would be infrared which is just above what we can see.
The shortest that we can see is purple, the shortest arc in the rainbow. An example of shorter would be ultraviolet, which is just below what we can see.
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