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🌈 The Rainbow Only Contains 72% of All Colors (youtu.be)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Did someone tell you rainbows contain all the colors? Well, that's not true! It is missing a whopping 28% of colors!🌈

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well there is wavelength and intensity, an all together it is called a spectrum. No need for a third parameter. Also there are mor than 100% of all colors in there, as a quick check on Wikipedia would reveal..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

The third parameter is saturation, which comes into play for non-monochromatic (i.e., multiple-wavelength) colors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I agree

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is no such thing as a mono wavelength color. There are only spectral densities. Or in other words electromagnetic radiation / photons distributed over some energy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is this a weird terminology argument? Because there are definitely ways to produce color that output one specific wavelength of light.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yes at exactly 0K and without quantumechanics..