Magenta: The colour that doesn't exist – BBC REEL

When we look at a rainbow, we see a full spectrum of light. Every colour we could imagine. Except one – magenta.

Where is it? Well, officially magenta doesn't exist. There is no wavelength of light for magenta, meaning the human brain literally makes it up, but how?

Video by Archie Crofton
Narrated by Lotte Rice
Commissioned by Paul Ivan Harris

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[RubyMaster]

BBB: Magenta isn't real

Me: Magenta is my favorite color

[stephanelarochelle]

Well, you learn new things every day! I will go to bed more informed tonight than when I got up this morning ...

[artistbervucci]

Just because magenta is social construct of our minds, does not mean that it doesn't exist. In fact, the whole construct of mind is the very prove of its existence.

[OrontesRM]

...hence the fantastically groovy song 'Magenta Mountain'.

[foxmyle-a]

Magnificent! This is the best channel for learning English + I learn something new every day🤩

[JB-szwy]

Interestingly enough it should have a wavelength. It's a combined one but so too are orange and yellow and they have known wavelengths as they are a mix of red and green though orange has less green. Magenta is red and blue and pink is red with some green and blue. Pink has a portion of the blue of purple replaced with green and will appear longer or brighter than magenta. Also light blue light is white with a bit of red and green taken out giving it more of a whitish wavelength so you can also make longer and warm blues. Same with gray but since it's all three colors somewhat dimmed it will be dimmer than white but a light silver could still be almost as bright yet alone prettier but a dark gray would be very short as it goes nearer black which is nothing or very little reflected. Midnight blue would be a very dim color. Purples and Greys and greens can vary a lot

[miguelgalindo]

I thought that the wavelength could be interpreted as a circle not a actual line that’s why it makes a perfect ratio of red and blue

[yokeenb]

If the color doesn't exist, you can't see it.

[martinmartinmartin]

magenta : A source that emits or reflects BOTH 700nm red lght and 450 nm blue is perceived by humans as as magenta.
As far a human eyesight is concerned, some people see IR light which has a greater wave length than Red light... most others can NOT perceive IR light .

I agree with ArtistBervucci below. How can the word "exist" apply to the reaction of one's sense of sight, or hearing or touch?
Does human reaction to the color magenta from a rotting, dead body and the red of a beautiful flower DIFFER ?

[jadeyjung]

great viz from great brit!

expect more like this

[MatthewJacinto-zuyg]

Then what is the wavelength of purple we can see purple so what is the wavelength of purple we can Also see pink so what is the wavelength of pink to isn't pink just a light shade of red so we can see pink but not magenta🤔🤔🤔

[Manisphesto]

Hold on, if magenta doesn't exist, then how come magenta things exist (like roses, pigments, and anything else)?

[ElenaKomleva]

This is silly! Pink, beige, brown, black, white and other colours mixed with either white or black also aren't on the rainbow.

[jasonngamare]

Crap I saw blue an purple 🟣 in my vision than we had solar flares what does this mean?

[DumbledoreMcCracken]

Cyan and yellow and red and green and blue also don't exist.

We have invented them in our minds

[fed-yum]

Given how much you spent on the graphics, I'm surprised you didn't spend more time on your research. There are other extra spectral colours. The most obvious being purple.

[negadoge]

There’s trillions of colors in the invisible spectrum… including magenta. It’s called the ultra-violet spectrum.

[electriccosmology]

Prisms only creates a linear spectrum of separated light and if you mixed one end with the other then you get magenta, with the colours of red and blue. The brain doesn’t just make up the colour, nature produces it, like with any other colour and to think it does is just very silly and you shouldn’t teach such things as fact. If you worked in a photography laboratory in the past you would have quickly been sacked, if you believed in such things, as you wouldn't know how to use the kit. In old school photography and photographic printing plus in TV, we used two different triads of the true light spectrum and not one just separated by triangular shaped glass.

In the old TV sets, we had red, green and blue guns and which when mixed correctly, could make any other colour. With yellow being made from the red and green guns and which was used due to being pure light and so, there was no matter pigment distorting the pure yellow colour and so also proving, there is no such thing as a primary colour.
In photography we had to use cyan, magenta and yellow and which when mixed correctly could also make any colour.

This triad was used due to the medium having to use pigments and which distorts the colour and so when mixing red and green, will give you brown and which is nothing more than a dirt yellow. To make red, we use magenta and yellow. To make blue we use magenta and cyan and to make green we use yellow and cyan. With the different two triads when viewed together as a spectrum, giving one of the esoteric meanings of the six-pointed star and its Electromagnetic Spectrum roots.

[SSS-szmg]

Well, I can't understand one thing why would BBC (state owned entity) puts so much money and effort into this media projects when they can't compete with Germany on innovation side? Or did I miss something?

[voiceofunsanity]

Tell it to star burning at its hottest