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aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 7 months agoOh I was making a joke cause it sucks at purple. Which is red and blue combined generally. But that’s not really how the RGB color cycle works as far as I understand in some extremely cursory Wikipedia reading lol
Alto@kbin.social 7 months ago
IIRC, it has something to do with the fact that purple sort of doesn't actually exist
aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 7 months ago
lol my favorite color would be a weird one. 😂
Alto@kbin.social 7 months ago
Right there with you.
More specifically, it's because purple fires your red and blue cones, but not the green one. Normally, as green is between red and blue, anything that would trigger those two also would trigger green. So when it doesn't, that's when your brain goes "well I guess it's not green???"