View original postAlso, I've never understood why green is a primary color of light, but not when it it comes to mixing paint. Instead, it gets replaced by yellow. Why aren't the colors the same in both cases?
This is making my head hurt.
View original postWhere's Rainbow Brite when you need her? 
I KNOW. Also, I tried to do A2000's quiz up there, and I may need to find Brainy Smurf.
View original postAlso, I think the spectrum actually IS linear rather than looped. If you go past violet, you go on to ultraviolet, rather than back to red. If you go backwards from red, you go to infared rather than back to violet.
It is - numerically. However, when we're talking about our eyes/brains' ability to make stuff up, it seems pretty obvious that it's the same thing. Sure, sure it's maybe more magical and all, given that red and blue don't connect in terms of wavelength value, but the anatomy of our eyes still causes something to come out of nothing (same as the overlapped lights in the example). And it is exactly what you would get if the red and blue did connect, so...
View original postAs far as mixing the colors goes though, a looped spectrum seems to make more sense. Gah! Too confusing!
Yeah. And poor Isaac is trying to explain, but them's too many words for a Sunday morning.
Purple: the most made up colour of them all.
- 26/02/2013 08:58:23 AM
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Wasn't magenta supposed to be the Colour of Magic?
- 26/02/2013 11:43:24 AM
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That was 'octarine', IIRC it was 'fluorescent greenish-yellow-purple' *NM*
- 26/02/2013 12:10:52 PM
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*NM*
*Looks at photos of rainbows*
- 28/02/2013 07:57:03 PM
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Indigo=/=Purple=/=Violet
- 02/03/2013 03:52:19 AM
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Honestly, the whole "cyan/dark blue/indigo/purple/violet end of the spectrum confuses me
- 02/03/2013 02:42:15 PM
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This whole thing confuses me
- 02/03/2013 09:40:38 AM
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It is weird stuff but think of magenta as something that tastes like chicken
- 02/03/2013 11:53:18 AM
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