You might say it’s just a pigment of your imagination ...
Physicists and vision scientists are lining up behind a provocative claim: the rich color we call purple is not a property of light at all, but a story the brain tells itself. Light in the real world ...
The world is awash with the color purple — lavender flowers, amethyst gemstones, plums, eggplants and purple emperor butterflies. But if you look closely at the visible-light portion of the ...
Is purple a real color? Scientists think everything we've ever believed about the color purple may not be true due to the ...
The color purple has long been a symbol of royalty, creativity, and mystery. But according to science, it's also something else: a figment of our imaginations. While it looks just as real as red or ...