voxpoplar

voxpoplar wrote

Reply to If light is just electromagnetic waves, and color is just different frequencies of light, and we can make radio waves at arbitrary frequencies, why can't we create visible light of arbitrary pure colors? by flabberghaster

Because colours aren't frequencies of light, they are perceptions that are created by our bodies. We perceive colour when cone cells in our eyes react to light. There are three different kinds and they each have ranges of frequencies that stimulate them. We call them red, blue and green cones and thus perceive those as "primary colours" but the frequency ranges that stimulate the different cells actually overlap a lot, especially the red and green ones.

Any colour you perceive is the result of the different cones in your eyes being stimulated by different amounts, and you see different colours based on how much each is stimulated. And many colours that we perceive correspond to mixes of stimulation level across the cones that can only happen when they are stimulated simultaneously by different frequencies of light.

There is no single frequency of light that will stimulate the different types of cones in the correct levels for you to perceive magenta, that only occurs if there is a mix of frequencies hitting your eyes that stimulate the blue and red cones a lot without stimulating the green cones, and as the green cone range lies somewhere in between the red and blue cone range that can't happen with a single frequency.

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voxpoplar wrote

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damn that's a long character

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voxpoplar wrote (edited )

Reply to cryptocurrencies are bad but i think the following are good: (1) decentralization as a concept, (2) cryptography, (3) private payments, and (4) dnn-based art tools ("ai art") by twovests

There was a weird blow-up a while ago of people calling Mastodon sketchy and dangerous compared to, say, Twitter, because of the fact that admins can potentially see non-public messages (if they manually query the server database) which just... yeah and I've got some bad news about Twitter too. This is necessarily true because of how software functions at a base level.

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