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Why do we see violet beyond blue in the spectrum?
The eye’s red receptor has a secondary absorption/response at short wavelengths in the farther indigo overlapping the blue receptor. The brain interprets naturally this as the mix of red and blue i.e. violet in this case, and so it looks like purple to the brain. This is not easy to find on...- pedm
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