Most colors represent a single wavelength of light. But your brain invents purple to deal with wavelengths from opposite ends of the visible spectrum.
  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    111·
    9 days ago

    I mean, all colors exist in our brains? The way that we perceive color is a translation of differences in the speed of lightwaves, our colored world is a hallucination of our minds.

    • koavf@lemmy.mlOPM
      5·
      9 days ago

      Did you read the article?

      “All colors are made up by the brain. Full stop,” says this visual scientist at Newcastle University in England. They’re our brain’s way of interpreting signals from our eyes. And they add so much meaning to things we perceive, she says.