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color is sometimes included. Some have argued that Newton's indigo would be equivalent to our modern blue, and his blue equivalent to our blue-green. However, his nonintuitive choices can be better explained. In the table below, note how wavelength is not proportional to hue (which is approximately
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attempt to divide the spectrum into sections that appear perceptually uniform. On the other hand, Newton's sections are approximately uniform in size as they would have physically appeared in the diffracted spectrum, i.e. each about 40nm "wide". In this theory, the sections were divided without
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curves. If the spectral sensitivity curves do not overlap, then all colors except for the extremes (where one of the cones is not excited) would be non-spectral. However, there are no known vision systems where the
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color terms included red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet; this color sequence is still used to describe spectral colors colloquially and a
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The spectrum colors are the colors on the horseshoe-shaped curve on the outside of the diagram. All other colors are not spectral: the bottom line is
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which include all, or most spectral colors, they form a part of boundary of the set of all real colors. When considering a three-
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there is no distinction between spectral and non-spectral colors. Their entire gamut can be represented by spectral colors.
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Any color obtained by mixing a gray-scale color and another color (either spectral or not), such as
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or names, but aligning boundaries between color terms to a specific wavelength is very subjective.
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The table below includes several definitions where the spectral colors have been categorized in
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color models such as CIE 1931, but industrial and consumer color spaces such as sRGB, CMYK, and
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influence of his own perception, and each section was then given a name that best suited its
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chromaticity diagram contains all the spectral colors (to the eye of the standard observer).
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that a given monochromatic light evokes is approximated at the right side of the table.
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systems do not qualify, because many spectral colors lie rather far from their
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The first person to decompose white light and name the spectral colors was
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spectrum vary greatly in wavelength range, but are more consistent in the
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Laser beams are monochromatic light, thereby exhibiting spectral colors.
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Kelly, Kenneth L. (November 1, 1943). "Color Designations for Lights".
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Color evoked by a single wavelength of light in the visible spectrum
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is reasonably good with approximating spectral orange, yellow, and
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colors and spectral colors shows a complicated dependence on the
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when all colors of light are mixed together, they produce white
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CRC handbook of fundamental spectroscopic correlation charts
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Color vision and colorimetry : theory and applications
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used in English, only some of which are spectral colors.
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rainbow
decomposition

color
monochromatic light
spectral line
wavelength
frequency
light
visible spectrum
spectral band
lasers
continuous spectrum
rainbow

CIE xy chromaticity diagram
line of purples

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