Why this color doesn't exist?

Why this color doesn't exist?




 Why this color doesn't exist?


  The human eye is an amazing organ that can distinguish among millions of colors in the visible color spectrum. But there is a color that humans can see, but it doesn't exist!


  Yes! This color magenta, does not technically exist. And you can see it. In the visible color spectrum given above, there is no color magenta. 

  Firstly, let’s catch on out of the way. Technically, magenta doesn’t exist. There’s no wavelength of light that corresponds to that particular color; it’s simply a construct of our brain of a color that is a combination of blue and red. But it gets stranger. I am not just talking that kind of thing, I am talking about actual colors that you simply got to trick your brain into recalibrating itself so as to as certain.

  Our eyes have receptors called conical cells for three different colors: red, green, and blue. By measuring the combined responses, secondary colors are often constructed. For example, a combination of red and green makes yellow. 

  Similarly when our red and blue conical cells respond, we see this technically non-existent color magenta which has no wavelength.
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