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danihel
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hi
i've been intrigued by certain "inconsistency" between light frequencies and the way we see them for some time by now.
if you mix red and yellow you get orange, if you mix red and green you get yellow, blue and yellow makes green, blue and green makes cyan. Now in all of these cases by mixing two colors corresponding to two different light frequencies you got pretty much a color corresponding to the light frequency somewhere in the middle.
But if you mix blue and red you'll get violet which is of higher frequency then blue, red being the bottom of visible spectrum. Is there some kind of biological reason why does the visible spectrum create a color wheel in our brain?
I'm not physicist and i don't understand the math of composing waves, could it be that our brain interprets different light frequency compositions as the same one color?
i've been intrigued by certain "inconsistency" between light frequencies and the way we see them for some time by now.
if you mix red and yellow you get orange, if you mix red and green you get yellow, blue and yellow makes green, blue and green makes cyan. Now in all of these cases by mixing two colors corresponding to two different light frequencies you got pretty much a color corresponding to the light frequency somewhere in the middle.
But if you mix blue and red you'll get violet which is of higher frequency then blue, red being the bottom of visible spectrum. Is there some kind of biological reason why does the visible spectrum create a color wheel in our brain?
I'm not physicist and i don't understand the math of composing waves, could it be that our brain interprets different light frequency compositions as the same one color?