Well, I PLANNED on drawing some more stuff. In fact, I've made some progress. Unfortunately, I'm back to job hunting, so less time for that, now.
Anyway, I came across a not-so-recent article regarding the color pink (or, more specifically, magenta), and it got me thinking. Here's the link:
So, the conclusion of this article is that magenta is NOT a color. This is a well known "mind blowing" scientific fact that I see quoted all over the place (I first discovered it on TV-Tropes). They go into a bit of scientific analysis, starting with showing the visible light spectrum, and demonstrating that magenta is not represented, and goes on from there.
It all sounds so amazing. Magenta does not exist, it's just a construct of the brain to help us make sense of the world, and is just another sign that the universe as we see it is not---
What a second....
"""This means that colours only really exist within the brain – light is indeed travelling from objects to our eyes, and each object may well be transmitting/reflecting a different set of wavelengths of light; but what essentially defines a 'colour' as opposed to a 'wavelength' is created within the brain."""
"""So what does the brain do when our eyes detect wavelengths from both ends of the light spectrum at once (i.e. red and violet light)? Generally speaking, it has two options for interpreting the input data:
a) Sum the input responses to produce a colour halfway between red and violet in the spectrum (which would in this case produce green – not a very representative colour of a red and violet mix)b) Invent a new colour halfway between red and violetMagenta is the evidence that the brain takes option b – it has apparently constructed a colour to bridge the gap between red and violet, because such a colour does not exist in the light spectrum. Magenta has no wavelength attributed to it, unlike all the other spectrum colours."""
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So color is, by definition, our brain's interpretation of light. Light enters the eyes, and the brain says "That's _____ color!". Red and violet light enter the eyes, and the brain says it's magenta. That makes magenta our brain's interpretation of red and violet light combined. So....magenta is not a color, how?
In other words: color is an invention of the brain; magenta is a "color" invented by the brain; therefore, magenta is not a color. Because science.
So yeah, just wasted a couple minutes of your life. You're welcome!
-Nephy