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  2. List of colors by shade - Wikipedia

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    Magenta is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMY color models, it is located midway between red and blue, opposite green. Complements of magenta are evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 500–530 nm.

  3. Impossible color - Wikipedia

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    In 1983, Hewitt D. Crane and Thomas P. Piantanida performed tests using an eye-tracker device that had a field of a vertical red stripe adjacent to a vertical green stripe, or several narrow alternating red and green stripes (or in some cases, yellow and blue instead). The device could track involuntary movements of one eye (there was a patch ...

  4. Color of chemicals - Wikipedia

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    This can only be used as a very rough guide, for instance if a narrow range of wavelengths within the band 647–700 nm is absorbed, then the blue and green receptors will be fully stimulated, making cyan, and the red receptor will be partially stimulated, diluting the cyan to a greyish hue.

  5. It Takes The Entire Rainbow Of Colors To Make The Sky Blue ...

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    Red, orange and yellow have longer wavelengths, which means, in short, they have a better chance of making the long journey. -Wildfire smoke that turns the sky a hazy orange.

  6. Atmospheric optics - Wikipedia

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    The reddish color of the Sun when it is observed through a thick atmosphere, as during a sunrise or sunset. This is because long-wavelength (red) light is scattered less than blue light. The red light reaches the observer's eye, whereas the blue light is scattered out of the line of sight. Other colours in the sky, such as glowing skies at dusk ...

  7. Chromostereopsis - Wikipedia

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    Bluered contrast demonstrating depth perception effects 3 Layers of depths "Rivers, Valleys & Mountains". Chromostereopsis is a visual illusion whereby the impression of depth is conveyed in two-dimensional color images, usually of redblue or red–green colors, but can also be perceived with red–grey or blue–grey images.

  8. Why did the moon look orange in Texas on Thursday night ... - AOL

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    If you looked above at the night sky on Thursday in Central or South Texas, you may have noticed that the moon had an orange-reddish hue. No, it wasn't a lunar eclipse — but your eyes didn't ...

  9. Color term - Wikipedia

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    A color term (or color name) is a word or phrase that refers to a specific color. The color term may refer to human perception of that color (which is affected by visual context) which is usually defined according to the Munsell color system, or to an underlying physical property (such as a specific wavelength on the spectrum of visible light).