Pink Is A Lie!
Digg directed me to a little science article about colors and your eyes. The idea of 'color' is manufactured by your brain based off of incoming light. Your eyes see a certain wavelength and associate it with a color, from the shortest, red, to the longest, violet.
Great, so if you create a spectrum you can see all the possible colors of light. Only you can't, magenta(pink) doesn't exist in the spectrum.
There is no Pink!
In a gross simplification, when two different wavelengths of light enter your eye, the brain basically averages the two colors together to create the color you see. So when Red and Green enter your eye, the brain says, "Yellow!"
However, when red and blue enter your eye, you get magenta which indicates that the brain doesn't see the spectrum as a strip. Instead the brain treats it as a loop. When it averages blue and red, it connects them together with the completely fabricated color of pink.
Great, so if you create a spectrum you can see all the possible colors of light. Only you can't, magenta(pink) doesn't exist in the spectrum.
There is no Pink!
In a gross simplification, when two different wavelengths of light enter your eye, the brain basically averages the two colors together to create the color you see. So when Red and Green enter your eye, the brain says, "Yellow!"
However, when red and blue enter your eye, you get magenta which indicates that the brain doesn't see the spectrum as a strip. Instead the brain treats it as a loop. When it averages blue and red, it connects them together with the completely fabricated color of pink.
posted by mattjustmull | 12:51 PM | permalink
2 Comments:
I have read this post like 5 times. I'm just gonna admit it. I don't get it. Although I have to tell ya, I was thinking, "Men will use this as an excuse for their inability to distinguish Pink from Magenta".
Try the source article. It's longer, but it might be clearer.
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