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For a long time I just accepted that mesmers was associated with the color pink just because it was the color chosen for them. Well, it turns out that may not be the case and that it actually does have a reason, a very small detail. Pink is what happens when you see every color besides green and your brain tries to fill in the gap with something else. There is no pink light, it’s just an illusion made by the brain. http://gizmodo.com/5850825/theres-no-such-thing-as-pink

Just to add to the confusion <snicker> it depends on if you are talking about additive color or subtractive.

In additive color you are mixing different colors (wavelengths) of light. Mixing the three primaries (red, blue, green) yields white. Mixing two primaries give the secondaries cyan, yellow, and magenta. I guess that’s what they mean by pink not existing – blue and red light are opposite ends of the spectrum and magenta (pink) is in the (imaginary) space between.

In subtractive color you’re mixing pigments that reflect (and absorb) light. Mixing all three primaries (red, yellow, blue) creates black. Mixing two primaries gives you the secondaries green, violet, and orange. Pink in this case is actually red or violet, just diluted.

There’s room for a lot of craziness in how we see color. Is green primary or secondary? It depends. Also, we can not distinguish between pure wavelengths of light and mixtures that look the same to us. Yellow light isn’t actually red and green, but we can’t see the difference.

head . . . hurts. . . make it stop . . .

+2 Voodoo Tina because your post succeeds on both levels.

Your descriptions of the additive and subtractive colour models are spot on, but Bigskyn’s head hurts because you didn’t provide practical examples of when the two colour models are used, thereby adding to the confusion.

An electronic medium such as computer and its screen uses the additive colour model – it uses red, green and blue light to make all the colours.

A printer uses the subtractive model which is why it needs cyan, magenta and yellow toner cartridges, the CMYK colour model.

In theory, mixing cyan, magenta and yellow gives black but in reality the imperfections in the ink gives a muddy brown colour, hence the need for the black cartridge. So the K in CMYK stands for black, which isn’t that clear really but fits in perfectly with the spirit of Voodoo Tina’s post.

All cleared up now?

i loved reading things like this and knowing what’s going on.

this also instills faith that the forums is not an intrinsically bad place. many thanks

kitten! My mind is full of kitten!

The mez have a really well thought out theme behind it.

The butterflies and the color,,, both if look into can easily be seen why it is used.

I remember this xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1080/large/

The brain is amazing at filling in information. And yes, our classcolour is non-existent (in a way ^-^).