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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Purple is not the same as indigo. Indigo is like a deep blue. Indigo and violet are essentially the same thing. Basically Newton liked the number 7. So when coming up with colors of the rainbow, he added violet to get to 7 colors.
Purple is a different color, the combination of red and blue light seen together / overlapping.
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