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

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    72% of all hues.

    The space of visible colors is three-dimensional, and the spectrum is missing two dimensions (brightness and saturation). You can’t assign a percentage to that.

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      8 months ago

      … also there are different choices for the scaling of the hue axis, so the percentage can change. This is also noted in the vid.

    • MatFi@lemmy.thias.xyz
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      8 months ago

      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…

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        8 months ago

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