FYI - purple doesn't exist 💜👈 not real

[underpants]

https://youtube.com/shorts/cCFI6jcgxz8?si=FD9dOLjqfyw95P4v

Fun Fact: Purple Doesn’t Exist!

The exciting information comes from the website Interesting Facts, which recently published the following explainer:

Our eyes perceive color in the visible spectrum due to particular wavelengths: Red is the longest wavelength, at 700 nanometers, whereas violet is the shortest, at 380 nanometers. This is why the invisible wavelengths just below this threshold are known as ultraviolet, or UV rays (and why wavelengths directly above 700 nanometers are known as “infrared”).

The color purple, however, is what physicists call a “nonspectral color,” meaning it isn’t represented by a particular wavelength of light, but is instead a mixture of them as perceived by our brain. While some people use violet and purple interchangeably, the two colors are distinct; violet (which is part of the visible spectrum) has a more bluish hue, whereas purple is more red. The cones in our eyes receive inputs, and our brain uses ratios of these inputs to represent subtleties of color. Purple is therefore a complete construction of our brain, as no wavelength represents the color naturally.

https://uni-watch.com/2023/05/16/fun-fact-purple-doesnt-exist/

[eppur_se_muova]

1. No wonder you can't find a rhyme for purple ! nt

[underpants]

3. No rhyme

No reason

[Hugin]

2. This sure explains why I have...

Synesthesia for a band of colors in that range.

To me, they appear black ( as in no reflected light ) and they stimulate a berry like flavor in my mouth.

[Jerry2144]

4. Color doesn't really exist

It’s just an effect of biology. There are just photons of different frequencies/wavelengths/energy. Different cells respond to different wavelengths.

[Shermann]

5. I've heard this said of pink as well. nt

[debm55]

6. Primary colors-red, yellow, blue. Secondary colors--green, purple, orange. You can mix red and blue paint together and

get purple. Violet is different as it has more of a bluish tint. We also have tints of the primary colors---add white--red and white are examples and shades adding black to each colors. Blue is not on the spectrum==its indigo. I don't want to be a smart ass, but there is a color purple.

[Silent Type]

7. Shades of purple are still my favorite "colors."

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. Don't twist my melon man!😎

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

10. Birds aren't real either, and if you're a Purple Martin well ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren%27t_Real

[underpants]

12. 😆 I love Birds aren't Real

[electric_blue68]

11. Interesting. I know the difference beteen violet, and purple...

If you had a faceted clear crystal that in sunlight you'd get a bunch of spectrums scattered on the wall. If you rotated the crystal so the violet end over lapped a red end you 'd get a vibrant magenta- like a 4-color printer's magenta.

With lightning (vs paint colors)
blue + green = cyan (like a turquoise)
blue + red = magenta
and
red + green = yellow (which seems strange, I think, but it works in this system)
Finally red + green + blue = white

While if you mixed red + blue + yellow paint together you get a blackish color.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Oprah disputes that claim.

[LudwigPastorius]

14. Nothing is real...and nothing to get hung about.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240103145256/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-we-live-in-a-simulation/

[Bucky]

15. Prince Rodgers Nelson disapproves of this thread

Rhymes with Purple

I found the joy in her pull
While playing in her fur pool

There, a real poem