makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 4 months agoWould you consider purple a warm blue or a cool red?message-squaremessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1message-squareWould you consider purple a warm blue or a cool red?makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 4 months agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squareMagicShel@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoYes. Purple is not a single color. Maybe a spectrum analysis could answer this for a given instance of purple, but that’s not my area of knowledge.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-24 months agoSpecifically, purple is not a wavelength, unlike red(s) at ~700nm and blue(s) at ~400nm. Purple is what human eyes see when the blue and red cones are both stimulated by their respective colours of light.
minus-squareAFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI like that some people are so confident in their incorrect understanding of something that they’ll downvote the correct answer. What you said is correct.
Yes.
Purple is not a single color. Maybe a spectrum analysis could answer this for a given instance of purple, but that’s not my area of knowledge.
Specifically, purple is not a wavelength, unlike red(s) at ~700nm and blue(s) at ~400nm.
Purple is what human eyes see when the blue and red cones are both stimulated by their respective colours of light.
I like that some people are so confident in their incorrect understanding of something that they’ll downvote the correct answer.
What you said is correct.