Re:Color names and their wave lengths and frequencies
by hilbert42 on Saturday June 10, 2017 @04:24PM
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"<...> pure colour forms using Dan Bruton's Spectra approximation<...>"
Approximation or not, you cannot assign a unique wavelength or frequency to perceptual (extra-spectral) colors if for no other reason than that the given λ(f) is factually incorrect. Moreover, even an approximation doesn't make much sense, as simply human vision perceives magenta as a very different color to say various shades of pink (white + red) or any other color near red [orange. orange-red, etc.]. Basically, there is no single λ(f) - spectral - color that looks even vaguely like magenta (similarly for cyan, 'fuchsia' etc.).
Furthermore as you can see in the list composite colours such as white, gray and black have undefined values.