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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I feel like the majority of these answers are very much not ELI5.
The basics of it is this:
The visual color spectrum (a section of the electromagentic spectrum) is not a circle. Red is at one end of the range humans can perceive, and violet (purple) is at the other end.
Always remember that the spectrum of light and the associated colors are not the same, or even analogous to the color wheel used when discussing art.
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