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🌈 The Rainbow Only Contains 72% of All Colors (youtu.be)

submitted 8 months ago by LeekWeek@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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Did someone tell you rainbows contain all the colors? Well, that's not true! It is missing a whopping 28% of colors!🌈

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago (8 children)

72% of all hues.

The space of visible colors is three-dimensional, and the spectrum is missing two dimensions (brightness and saturation). You can’t assign a percentage to that.

[–] LeekWeek@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Exactly! And that is what I say in the video. Just that I tried to find a simple title.

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