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

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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] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

No it does not. The rainbow has all wavelength within the visible spectrum. But not all colors. And yes, color is based on perception.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Yoy can filter out frequencies in the rainbow spectra in a way that it looks like any color..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can do that with white light, but not in the rainbow, because the wavelengths are spatially already separated. So you would also have to combine them again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

True it is...