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[Naturegirl1999]

Isn’t magenta an imaginary color? Magenta’s the pretender

[Egan_BW]

nope

[Naturegirl1999]

Spoiler: Magenta does not show upon the color spectrum (click to show/hide)

this is why I am a pretender

[Egan_BW]

But if any color is fake, it's yellow, because our eyes don't actually have cells which can see it.

[Naturegirl1999]

I’m on the color spectrum, a combo of red and green to humans and other tricone animals, primates mainly, though animals with 2 cones see blue and I, so I’m not as fake as magenta
while I’m fake and don’t exist on the color spectrum, the humans here, the brains, have invented me. Are any of us really fake?
as a component of both of you, can I say something? There’s an animal called the mantis shrimp that has like, 12 cones, for specific colors. I don’t think they think of colors their cones don’t have specifics for is fake
I think colors are colors, we’re all either real or fake based on what the animals call us, and words, and definitions
so, what’s the consensus here?
dude, we’re in one mind, let’s let other incarnations of ourselves speak, for we exist in other minds too, not just this one

[Uthimienure]

Smell The Color 9

[Eschar]

Plan Magenta from Outer Space

[Egan_BW]

Strange colors never before seen on earth!

[King Zultan]

Close Encounters of The Unseen Colours

[scriver]

Consorting with Illicit Spectra

[MaxTheFox]

What would PETA's reaction be if they were banned as an organization?

[TamerVirus]

What would PETA's reaction be if they were banned as an organization?

They would unleash their stocks of rabid cats and dogs from their shelters and doom humanity

[bloop_bleep]

The only real colors are those on the rainbow, because they correspond to light frequencies. Blue mixed with red is not violet; it merely imitates violet because it activates our red, blue, and green cones in approximately the same proportion as actual violet frequency light does. This happens because our cones don't just sense red, blue, or green light, but rather sense different frequencies at different sensitivities:



So, in fact, if humans had more than just 3 kinds of cones, we could see a much wider range of colors.

[Eschar]

The Color out of Space

[Naturegirl1999]

The only real colors are those on the rainbow, because they correspond to light frequencies. Blue mixed with red is not violet; it merely imitates violet because it activates our red, blue, and green cones in approximately the same proportion as actual violet frequency light does. This happens because our cones don't just sense red, blue, or green light, but rather sense different frequencies at different sensitivities:



So, in fact, if humans had more than just 3 kinds of cones, we could see a much wider range of colors.

this is why I mentioned magenta being a fake color