Re:Impossible colors
by pak on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @12:09AM
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Right, although we have been trained otherwise by rainbow diagrams from birth, colors do not map 1:1 to wavelengths, and most of the light we observe is a mixture of wavelengths; we can only sample an intensity from each of three fuzzy bands of the spectra, and the rest is in our heads.
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