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> It's the only color not in the rainbow. Wrong. I hate this argument about pink/fuchsia being "special". most colors are not in the rainbow. most colors are
by Manishearth 10y ago
> It's the only color not in the rainbow.
Wrong.
I hate this argument about pink/fuchsia being "special".
most colors are not in the rainbow. most colors are what our brain comes up with when it gets contradictory signals. However, most colors are "close enough" to a color that's in the rainbow. Pink isn't. But this is very subjective and depends on the culture you originate from -- for example, in Japan green and blue are often regarded to be shades of the same color. I'm sure that similar things can happen with pink and red. If you've grown up with the same word for pink and red, thought of them as the same color, and only later learned names for the individuals shades, you'd probably say that pink is in the rainbow (and perhaps some subdivision of blue is not)
- IshKebab 10y agoNo you're wrong. Pink is the only colour that doesn't correspond to a colour on the rainbow (a "real" colour if you like). Rainbow colours are single-frequency, i.e. they can be generated by a laser. You can have a red laser, a blue laser, a yellow laser, etc. But you can't have a pink laser. But also, that doesn't mean that fuschia isn't a combination of pink and purple. OP is being super-pedantic to the point of being wrong.
- Manishearth 10y agoYou haven't refuted my point. I agree that rainbow colors are single-frequency. I'm asserting that most colors we see are not. Rainbow red is single-frequency. Most shades of red which we see are not. Rainbow blue is single-frequency. Most shades of blue which we see are not. Etc. You can have a red laser, but not a laser for most shades of red. You can't have things like a maroon laser. The only reason pink is special is because we do not consider it to be a shade of a rainbow color, which is a cultural thing.