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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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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Exactly! And that is what I say in the video. Just that I tried to find a simple title.

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

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

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I agree

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There is no such thing as a mono wavelength color. There are only spectral densities. Or in other words electromagnetic radiation / photons distributed over some energy.

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Obligatory: Brown is just Orange… with context

https://youtu.be/wh4aWZRtTwU?si=l3hFzLar2WxEf-KA

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that is a nice video. and it has 50000 times more views than mine :)

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He communicates how my brain comprehends. I watched so much of his content one time realizing my whole day was gone. I thought only an hour or two went by

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I’d recommend reiterating why fushia isn’t there. I rewound the video to find the relevant part again (not hard in a <5 minute video) but, imo, restating the cause and effect after separately stating the cause and then effect would help drive home the message. This way, you can actually apply the cause to the now-known effect. Maybe that’s just me.

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that is a very good point! YouTube does not let you change videos, but I will keep this in mind for the next one.

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It’s actually supposed to be ROMYFGBLIV instead of ROYGBIV.

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The FLDSMDFR

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