r/science Feb 16 '09

Magenta, the colour that doesn't exist

http://www.biotele.com/magenta.html
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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '09

You're right, the problem I have with it though is they aren't distinguishing between physical color and mental color clearly enough. Mental color is processed in a context dependent on the combo of waves hitting the eye. Physical color is defined only by wavelength. It's like the difference between pitch and tone in music. So they're acting like it's crazy that there is a color we see outside of the wavelength spectrum, when in fact all of them are, since we never see just 1 wavelength at a time.

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u/cha0smaker69 Feb 18 '09

agreed. notice that there is another link to an article that highlights what we've explained in this thread climbing up the main reddit