Comment on Colours
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 days agoRight, but in real-life, not in producing a lighted color, just like looking: things are brown. A coffee stain, say.
Comment on Colours
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 days agoRight, but in real-life, not in producing a lighted color, just like looking: things are brown. A coffee stain, say.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
If you were to point a spectrometer at something brown like a tree trunk you would see wavelengths corresponding to red and green light. That’s what I mean when I say brown only exists in our perception; there is no wavelength of light corresponding to the color brown.