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Light, and therefore color, is a wave when it comes to how we sense it. Like sound, if you take to frequencies and add them together, you don't get an average.
by ksaj 6y ago
Light, and therefore color, is a wave when it comes to how we sense it. Like sound, if you take to frequencies and add them together, you don't get an average. You get a more complex wave that produces a complex sound (a chord) somewhat akin to a secondary or tertiary color.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoIf you're talking about how we sense light, it's more of a vector of 3-4 scalar values. You have activation levels for your rods and each of your cones. Light is physically a wave, but that's not especially relevant to how you sense it.