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Whats your favorite color of light, why? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by cheese_greater to c/asklemmy

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I like pure red light (#FF0000) because its relaxing and lessens visual information overload

Baker-Miller pink is also interesting, was proposed to reduce violence and promote calmness in prison. Also very relaxing

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

#FF00FF

In terms of physiology, the color is stimulated in the brain when the eye reports input from short wave blue cone cells along with a sub-sensitivity of the long wave cones which respond secondarily to that same deep blue color, but with little or no input from the middle wave cones. The brain interprets that combination as some hue of magenta or purple, depending on the relative strengths of the cone responses.

In other words, our brains are like "🤷‍♂️, here's a thing"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

And you can pronounce it "foof"!