Comment on Halloween Botany
essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 year agoYour definition of color is based only on human perception? Is purple a color for a mantis shrimp?
Comment on Halloween Botany
essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 year agoYour definition of color is based only on human perception? Is purple a color for a mantis shrimp?
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Definition I’m using is any color that can be expressed as a single wavelength of light. Purple cannot be, since it’s actually two wavelengths simultaneously.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Perceiving it as a color seems more practical though. It’s not like we look at “red” and think “ah yes, a single wavelength of light”