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my reasoning: the actual colors we can see -> the wavelengths that we can extrapolate to -> basically extrapolated wavelengths plus an 'unpure-ness' factor -> not even real wavelengths (ok well king blue and maybe lavender if I'm being generous could be)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I don't think this makes sense, all colors are real... except the mental illnesses, beiges and sepias.

[–] AdrianTheFrog 5 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

well these ones specifically are displayed on your monitor (which can only display red, green, and blue) so they actually aren't real

your eyes are being tricked into thinking there's yellow for example, when there's really only red and green, this is because we can't really see yellow, we can just guess that its there based on the relative red-ness and green-ness of the light

However, it is very lucky for monitor manufacturers that we're so easily 'fooled'

[–] cuchilloc 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn’t violet / purple the made up one ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think magenta is the made up one. But also apparently most colors are existentially weird in some way

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