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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What??

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

It's a real color (as real as colors can be, which is not very). It's not a spectral color, you won't find it on the rainbow. It's actually the result of your red and blue cones being activated together.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

so this is based off my memory so there could be inaccuracies.
but what i've heard is that pink is the result of your brain registering a color because of specific color cones being activated but that your brain knows it's not actually that color and so it fills it in with pink.

[–] RampantParanoia2365 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, that's magenta, which looks like a pink, but it's not really.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

And so is brown.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pink is actually GREEN!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Orange is the new black