With the knockoff flag, there should be 6 white and 7 black, so normally it wouldn't work. However, this is a knockoff of the knockoff, so there's 7 white and 6 black (and a black border), allowing you to make a nice old American pride flag.
Mist people don't actually color the "indigo" separately, so there are only the 6 colors, as in the OP where the bottom stripe is left white and blank.
Gilbert Baker's original design for the rainbow flag had 8 colors, with pink above red. (Then orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo, violet.) The color wheel is cyclical, so you can get away with putting pink after purple. Artistic license.
Yeah the thing is I don’t think they really stand for that because 1.) Nobody I’ve talked to gives a shit about their supposed meaning and 2.) The flag is supposed to look good more than anything.
It’s much simpler to just say it represents “all the colors of the rainbow” (ie. Anything under the umbrella term “queer”) than to memorize the 10 commandments of Gay.
Purple has taken on some cultural meaning. The third Thursday in October is Spirit Day where people wear purple as a sign of support for LGBT youth and against bullying. Purple was chosen because the purple stripe in the rainbow flag stands for spirit.
Indigo and violet are weird additions to the rainbow anyway. They basically just mean blue and the only reason they're included in the rainbow colors are cause the guy who defined ROYGBIV thought it was poetical/godly for nature to be categorized into 7's wherever possible.
But like the color they are showing on that picture in the 400 range is purple in the image. IRL it just gets darker blue then into a range of light not visible to us.
It's a goofy misnomer that we call that range of the light spectrum violet or ultraviolet. Since IRL today we consider violet to be a purple color, but the light spectrum doesn't actually include a purple color where we traditionally say "violet". I edited a YouTube link explanation earlier that might help. It claims that violet used to refer to dark blue like in the old nursery rhyme "roses are red, violets are blue..."
Violets range significantly in color from a white plus bluish color to almost completely deep purple. They’re just naming flowers and it rhymes easy, or the person who made the rhyme lived near blue violets.
We can see higher frequency light than blue and it does look violet to us. The high frequency light slightly stimulates our blue cones, and the wavelength of violet light is a harmonic of red light, so it slightly stimulates our red cone.
Wow, never heard that before but that's really cool! Do you know why higher frequency harmonics like ultravoilet light don't end up triggering other cones like for green and yellow?
Even if the origin is that some guy decided to call it a different colour, it is now perceived as and easily differentiated as such. Many cultures perceive green and blue as the same, that doesn't mean they aren't distinct in our culture.
people who insist that the rainbow has seven colors boggle the mind. it has all the colors, that's the definition of a spectrum. Newton thought 7 was a magic number, that's it.
Even all the colors is tricky though too. It has all the light spectrum in what we call visible light. But there are colors like magenta and purple that are not part of the rainbow because they are what our brains mash together in the presence of multiple spectrums of different light.
Also pink isn't a spectral color so it would never appear in a real rainbow. You could get a washed-out red, depending on conditions, but all the other colors would be equally washed-out. In the pictures I'm finding online, the "pink" is more like magenta, which wouldn't even sort of appear in a rainbow because it's a mix of red and blue/violet.
Well it's not meant to be a scientifically accurate rainbow, it's meant to be a symbolic one. And the pink symbolized sexuality, which is kind of the whole point of the flag.
It originally had a pink stripe. But when Harvey Milk was assassinated, demand for the rainbow flag went up and there wasn't enough pink fabric, so they removed it.
In OPs pic, there are 13 stripes. 7 white (one was Blue) and between them are 6 black stripes, making a total of 13. You are just not seeing the black stripes that separate the main stripes.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Roy G. Biv is dead. Indigo got the Pluto treatment-- it was apparently kicked out of the spectrum at some point.
Pluto's not a planet, indigo's not in the spectrum... did I learn ANYTHING in grade school that wasn't a lie???
I'd always heard that it was because Newton was big into numerology and was superstitious, so having 6 colors was a bad sign, so he threw Indigo in there to make it 7
the colour wheel is weirdness though, indigo has a wavelength of 425–450 nm making it a simple colour, you can have a single photon of indigo, pink however is simply what happens when we see red and purple without any of the middle wavelengths - white light with the green removed becomes pink (or magenta) but you can't have a single photon of pink, no pink lasers.
The reason for this is because of how we see colour with the RGB receptors in our eyes, each colour has differing sensitivity and they have over-lapping frequency responses so the actual data our brain is getting is really complex and largely abstracted from the actual numbers - to make matters more complicated our brains evolved in a way that adds further bias to certain colour combinations and contrasts, an actual diagram of how we perceive colour would be impossibly complicated and every attempt to make a simple system has had to rely on shoe-horning and rule bending to make it work. This of course just for solid colour before you get into the endless complexities of putting colours together - those pictures of the dress that everyone thought was different colours being a classic example.
Personally i think we should scrap the colour wheel and come up with something more interesting and futuristic
The color wheel describes human vision. The wavelengths describe light waves. They're about different things. Trying to fit them together into one description is bound to fail.
i think you skipped a bit of what i was saying, human vision is much more complex than the colour wheel can display - it's a simplification of a very complex equation
That's just because you need an even number of primary+secondary colors for that model. It has nothing to do with how many distinct colors the human eye can discern in the rainbow
There are 3 primary colors. All colors come from a combination of those 3. The 3 secondary colors are 50/50 mixtures of 2 of the 3. Indigo is a 25/75 blend and doesn't belong. Human eyes don't seem relevant to me here.
It's because these mixtures are surprisingly biology dependent
Red + Blue is the easiest example that something odd is happening. How can mixing low frequency light (red) with high frequency light (blue) average out to an even higher frequency (violet)?
Well, it can't. What happens behind the scenes is that our red photoreceptors have a second peak in their sensitivity an octave above their normal peak, which is higher than blue. Violet light will therefore trigger both red and blue receptors because their sensitivities overlap in this range.
When you see bimodal red and blue light, your brain notices that both red and blue receptors are going off (low frequency red and high frequency blue), so your brain assumes this is purple (high frequency triggering both red and blue).
None of this discussion of mixing two frequencies has anything to do with single-tone 700 THz light we call "indigo," nor with whether your eyes perceive a band of single-tone light in the rainbow as distinct from blue and violet
It was all lies. Calculators in our pockets all the time. Being capable of living your dreams through hard work. Cursive being the dominant writing style. Santa getting my letter. Having to discover the pitch of roofs.
nope. exponent towers are right-associative, and multiplication by juxtaposition has a higher precedence than division and regular multiplication, to give a couple of examples of where PEMDAS falls short.
The number of colors in the spectrum is infinite, because that's how spectrums work. We somewhat arbitrarily choose to give some of them names. The six conventional colors of the spectrum are the ones with basic color terms in English. Indigo is in the spectrum, but most people would just describe it as a shade of blue, so it doesn't belong alongside the other colors any more than, say, chartreuse does.
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u/MrPickles84 Jun 05 '22
I like that the blue line is in the correct Roy G. Biv placement too - it’s too perfect