Magenta IS a Pigment of my Imagination
Well despite my very well thought out clip job from yesterday on magenta not being a real color, there is a very thought out rebuttal article on Ars Technica today.
I still hate Blue’s Clues with Joe.
So back to this rumor that magenta somehow isn’t a color. Elliott’s thesis centers on the argument that magenta appears nowhere on the spectrum of visible light, so it therefore isn’t a “real” color. If you look at a standard CIE chromaticity diagram, which maps wavelengths of light according to human perception, you’ll note that every point along the curve corresponds to a single wavelength of light. Magenta, as it were, lies along what’s commonly called the “pink-purple line” that runs across the bottom. All colors along this line do not exist as single wavelengths. But, all points inside the “color bag” above that line do not exist as single wavelengths, either.
CIE chromaticity diagram
The CIE 1931 color space chromaticity diagram. The outer curved boundary is the spectral (or monochromatic) properties of light, with wavelengths shown in nanometers.
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