Magenta Ain't A Colour

[joelm3103]

Magenta Ain't A Colour

A beam of white light is made up of all the colours in the spectrum. The range extends from red through to violet, with orange, yellow, green and blue in between. But there is one colour that is notable by its absence.

Pink (or magenta, to use its official name) simply isn't there. But if pink isn't in the light spectrum, how come we can see it?

Every now and again I come across some interesting stuff...like this for instance . Any thoughts on the matter? lol.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

It's a shade of red, and does in fact exist.


But, Magenta is different colors mixed, the way we see it, is the way it appears, but, it is infact different colors, kinda hard to explain I guess. It's why we see black, even though it don't exist in the light spectrum.

 

[joelm3103]

That's pretty cool, it's like seeing stuff that doesn't exist .

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

It's just where blue/red are mixed I guess, as that is what creates magenta, there is just no, known method, in the spectrum of light to create it, our brains just interpret the color as what it is. It exists, but it dont.

 

[joelm3103]

Haha true true .

 

[PP Mguire]

To be technical it would be a mixture of color (Paint, crayon, ect) and not light if you thought about it. In a rainbow you wont see "magenta" from the light spectrum but pink will be in almost any paint set or crayola box. Its there because its a mixture of color rather than light.

 

[Puddle Jumper]

To be technical it would be a mixture of color (Paint, crayon, ect) and not light if you thought about it. In a rainbow you wont see "magenta" from the light spectrum but pink will be in almost any paint set or crayola box. Its there because its a mixture of color rather than light.

Magenta is easy to make with light, just combine red and blue light. All of the subtractive primary colors (cyan, magenta, yellow) are easy to create using two of the three primary colors (red, green, blue).

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

It is possible, but, the reason it don't exist is because it isn't it's own wavelength, your brain is just interpreting two as one, as it takes blue/red which are opposite ends of the spectrum.

 

[hikaricloud]

Ain't ain't a word, either.

 

[joelm3103]

It is possible, but, the reason it don't exist is because it isn't it's own wavelength, your brain is just interpreting two as one, as it takes blue/red which are opposite ends of the spectrum.

Yup, that what the article mentions, like our mind filling the gap between red and blue in the spectrum.

Ain't ain't a word, either.

Haha nice catch .