I'd like to point you to my comment (and its resulting thread) on the other article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483780 http://news.ycombinator.com/item

I'd like to point you to my comment (and its resulting thread) on the other article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483780 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483780 "This article is useless. Magenta is a combination of colors, and is not represented by any single wavelength of light. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Saying magenta doesn't exist is like saying green paint doesn't exist, because it's a combination of blue and yellow (within subtractive primaries). [...]"