Oh good point about the blues. It’s a glockenspiel, but same deal
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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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seems kinda fair to me... the blue end doesn't seem to have strong gradations relative to human vision... newton originally segmented into 5 apparently
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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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Also I found this imagine trying to get clearer on what people meant by violet but the labeling of indigo here seems totally bonkers to me
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But huh maybe it’s not bc TIL there’s more variation in the color of the indigo plant in the pink direction than I had realized
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I have a random interest in color uncorrelated to any of my other interests due to working on color models and stuff at xerox
secret nerdsnipe vulnerability
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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

