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There's some fun optical illusions that operate off that Isaac Send a noteboard - 26/02/2013 02:14:04 PM

Mostly playing with after image, here's one where if you stare at the black crosshair in the middle you'll start seeing green dots left behind.

I suppose it is probably worth mentioning that while violet and indigo both get faked up with red and blue and no green too, on your screen, they do have actual wavelengths.

Also you don't exactly have red, green, blue receptors, you have S, M, and L receptors and those loosely correspond to blue, green, and red but the L receptor, as I recall (this isn't my area so grain of salt) isn't a single 'hill' like the M and S receptor with one single peak but one big hill with a second much smaller hill that peaks out in violet and at that point exceeds the M receptor in sensitivity, though not the S - found a graph. So when violet photons are going in they are being absorbed by those L (red) receptors more than the M (green) and one imagine's the brain just interprets any spot that is sending more signal from L than M while S is being stimulated as 'purple', it doesn't care that no violet photons are striking anymore than it cares that a red and blue striped disc sent spinning and appearing purple is never emitting overlapping red and blue light, just that and individual spot has emitted both in a shorter duration than it samples. L and S are both waving their flags but M isn't, hence purple, because your brain doesn't know what a violet photon is or even a red or blue one, it just knows how loudly L, M, and S are shouting relative to each other and doesn't care if L is shouting because it saw a violet photon or a red photon, since L doesn't actually know which it just detected. Grain of salt though, not my area.

Neat video though, it reminds of reading not that long back that very weak brown dwarfs would glow magenta because they glow so dimly that the sodium in them absorbs all the green light leaving only red and blue.

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Purple: the most made up colour of them all. - 26/02/2013 08:58:23 AM 580 Views
Wasn't magenta supposed to be the Colour of Magic? - 26/02/2013 11:43:24 AM 288 Views
That was 'octarine', IIRC it was 'fluorescent greenish-yellow-purple' *NM* - 26/02/2013 12:10:52 PM 129 Views
Yes, but I remembered correctly that purple was a part of it... - 26/02/2013 12:44:04 PM 273 Views
That's the important part *NM* - 26/02/2013 01:04:52 PM 116 Views
Purple? - 26/02/2013 01:28:29 PM 306 Views
There's some fun optical illusions that operate off that - 26/02/2013 02:14:04 PM 351 Views
i loved this video just because of the guy's accent. *NM* - 26/02/2013 06:34:13 PM 175 Views
*Looks at photos of rainbows* - 28/02/2013 07:57:03 PM 296 Views
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This whole thing confuses me - 02/03/2013 09:40:38 AM 269 Views
You and me both - 02/03/2013 02:46:32 PM 282 Views
I think you guys may be over-complicating this - 03/03/2013 09:43:46 AM 448 Views
Heh - 03/03/2013 10:39:48 AM 266 Views

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