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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.

[–] MatFi@lemmy.thias.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Well there is wavelength and intensity, an all together it is called a spectrum. No need for a third parameter. Also there are mor than 100% of all colors in there, as a quick check on Wikipedia would reveal..

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

The third parameter is saturation, which comes into play for non-monochromatic (i.e., multiple-wavelength) colors.

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