Did someone tell you rainbows contain all the colors? Well, thatโs not true! It is missing a whopping 28% of colors!๐
I donโt learn well from talking videos. skip skip. Iโll assume 28% is absorbed by water vapor.
Naahโฆ Its just confusing spectra with perceptionโฆ We may only perceive 72% of the spectraโฆ But the rainbow it self has all the colorsโฆ
Our eye perceives color as a mix of red, green, blue. The lowest color of the rainbow is red (hue 0 degrees on a color wheel) but our red cones have another sensitivity just above blue, so the rainbow shows as violet (hue 270 degrees) when both blue and red cones are triggered. But here, blue is triggered more than red. Then the rainbow extends into the ultraviolet which doesnโt trigger any of our receptors. But the color wheel still has another 90 degrees or so of hue where red gets stronger and blue is weaker. These are not pure spectral colors, because they must activate both red and blue cones at different frequencies, not just a single frequency like violet does.
No it does not. The rainbow has all wavelength within the visible spectrum. But not all colors. And yes, color is based on perception.
Yoy can filter out frequencies in the rainbow spectra in a way that it looks like any colorโฆ