makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 4 months agoWould you consider purple a warm blue or a cool red?message-squaremessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up162
arrow-up162message-squareWould you consider purple a warm blue or a cool red?makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 4 months agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squareMagicShel@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up34·4 months agoYes. Purple is not a single color. Maybe a spectrum analysis could answer this for a given instance of purple, but that’s not my area of knowledge.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·edit-24 months agoSpecifically, purple is not a wavelength, unlike red(s) at ~700nm and blue(s) at ~400nm. Purple is what human eyes see when the blue and red cones are both stimulated by their respective colours of light.
minus-squareAFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·4 months agoI like that some people are so confident in their incorrect understanding of something that they’ll downvote the correct answer. What you said is correct.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 months agoUrgh, I go to sleep, wake up, read soooooo much awful wrongness. Thanks for the vote of confidence fact.
minus-squareCerealKiller01@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoSo what would be the color created by a wavelength of 550nm?
minus-squareTolookah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up12·4 months agoRight, indigo is a color (~425nm), violet is a color (~400nm), purple is typically a blend of colors. See more: https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/47-colours-of-light
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 months agoFun fact: blends of colours are also colours.
minus-squareTolookah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 months agoNu uh! Okay, poor choice of words by me. Wavelength color vs what the eyes see.
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoNo worries, sorry for the snark. I find colour fascinating, like, when you dream of a purple dinosaur that’s colour without any light at all.
Yes.
Purple is not a single color. Maybe a spectrum analysis could answer this for a given instance of purple, but that’s not my area of knowledge.
Specifically, purple is not a wavelength, unlike red(s) at ~700nm and blue(s) at ~400nm.
Purple is what human eyes see when the blue and red cones are both stimulated by their respective colours of light.
I like that some people are so confident in their incorrect understanding of something that they’ll downvote the correct answer.
What you said is correct.
Urgh, I go to sleep, wake up, read soooooo much awful wrongness.
Thanks for the vote of
confidencefact.So what would be the color created by a wavelength of 550nm?
Right, indigo is a color (~425nm), violet is a color (~400nm), purple is typically a blend of colors.
See more: https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/47-colours-of-light
Fun fact: blends of colours are also colours.
Nu uh!
Okay, poor choice of words by me. Wavelength color vs what the eyes see.
No worries, sorry for the snark. I find colour fascinating, like, when you dream of a purple dinosaur that’s colour without any light at all.