The violet color

  • Paulo_fofis
    1st Feb 2019 Member 0 Permalink

    I was playing with prism, rainbow, photons, and noticed why it does not have the purple color in the rainbow ?????

     

     

    Edited once by Paulo_fofis. Last: 1st Feb 2019
  • coryman
    1st Feb 2019 Member 0 Permalink

    I may be wrong, but I think purple is a mix of red and blue light, and there's no such thing as a purple wavelength. You can make purple PHOT using FILT, though I can't remember exactly how, but if you look at real world physics, it shouldn't be produced by splitting white light in this manner

  • Lockheedmartin
    1st Feb 2019 Moderator 0 Permalink
    @coryman (View Post)
    Correct. It is just an illusion and the effect of violet light is a mix between colors (additive).
  • Pedro_Fada
    1st Feb 2019 Member 0 Permalink

    but in the rainbow you made all the colors red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, why not violet?

  • thechubbyhusky
    1st Feb 2019 Member 0 Permalink

    @Pedro_Fada (View Post)

     Because violet is on the other side of the split light so there isn't any way for the colours to mix and create violet. I think that's why

  • Paulo_fofis
    3rd Feb 2019 Member 0 Permalink

    The spectrum have violet ok, but have cian/yellow need voilet

  • NF
    3rd Feb 2019 Member 0 Permalink

    @Paulo_fofis (View Post)

     Did you not read what coryman wrote? 

    Edited once by NUCLEAR_FOX. Last: 3rd Feb 2019
  • Lockheedmartin
    3rd Feb 2019 Moderator 0 Permalink
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  • NF
    3rd Feb 2019 Member 0 Permalink

    @Paulo_fofis (View Post)

     This image should also help you understand how FILT works as well! https://goo.gl/images/3s4yg2

    Edited once by NUCLEAR_FOX. Last: 3rd Feb 2019
  • imkira3
    3rd Feb 2019 Member 0 Permalink

    The ROY G BIV model is technically incorrect, like the above posts mentioned. When you split light in that way, you actually create more than one rainbow, and purple is created by blue at the end of the rainbow mixing with the red at the end of the first rainbow and the strength of the second rainbow is always weaker than the first rainbow. There is no violet.