Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 days agoYour display contains no yellow pixels - yet it displays the color yellow just finemessage-squaremessage-square53linkfedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up171arrow-down1message-squareYour display contains no yellow pixels - yet it displays the color yellow just fineIconoclast@feddit.uk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 days agomessage-square53linkfedilinkfile-text
Applies to many other colors as well. I “understand” why that is but it hurts my brain to think about.
minus-squares@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·8 days agoMagenta isn’t even a real color. Your brain made it up.
minus-squareWhats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 days ago Your brain made it up. Well, yeah, but our brains make up every color. Our experiences of color are nothing more than a facet of our brains’ interpretations of light information. It’s all in our heads.
minus-squareCort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 days agoMagenta is a primary color (not red). You can’t mix non-magenta red paint with blue paint to get purple.
Magenta isn’t even a real color. Your brain made it up.
Well, yeah, but our brains make up every color. Our experiences of color are nothing more than a facet of our brains’ interpretations of light information. It’s all in our heads.
Magenta is a primary color (not red). You can’t mix non-magenta red paint with blue paint to get purple.