Posts tagged with ‘color’

Color science of the day: “Is My Red the Same as Your Red?’

Science YouTuber Vsauce explains why red is a color that we may not ever quite get perfect because of how differently it looks to different people.

Colour Mixing: The Mystery of Magenta 

Why doesn’t magenta appear in the rainbow? The answer lies not in physics but in biology.

Science presenter Steve Mould demonstrates the strange phenomenon of colour mixing, in which not everything is as it seems. The cone cells within our eyes are responsible for the colours we see, but are only sensitive to Red, Green and Blue light. So how are we able to see so many colours when we can only directly detect three and how do our brains see the colour magenta which doesn’t have a wavelength?

How Do You Describe Colors To Blind People?