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So this one is weird it has the “every color once but two blues” thing like the stacking toy, and there’s also a pink and also what is even up with the order of the colors. I can’t tell if it’s better or worse than a random 🎲 arrangement would be 🤷🏽‍♀️ 7.5/10 I guess?
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why are you looking for purple in rainbows? VIBGYOR doesn't really have a purple in it does it? Indigo is more blue register. Purple is a reddish blue you don't see in real rainbows
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That is also fair. But the canonical rainbows that lack blue don’t have indigo + violet—they typically just stop at blue. If they had IV that would be great, but I think purple is a fine approximation that works well with our language for colors
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lol "Scholars have noted that what Newton regarded at the time as "blue" would today be regarded as cyan, and what Newton called "indigo" would today be considered blue"
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These two blues should be switched!!!
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Might f around and make this a thread where I rate rainbows overall: This one is 6.5/10 -purple is the big one, which is nonstandard but I don’t mind! -prob bc “red goes on top” matters more than comparative size; fine -buuut the blues are ordered wrong according to me and 3yo
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a confounding factor with indigo in particular is that when aniline was artificial synthesized, I think the color got reductively defined down to the narrower hue range of the dye rather than the plant
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