Why are some people convinced that indigo is in the rainbow?

Stop being such a colorblind asshat and admit that you're wrong! Indigo is blue; there is absolutely no reason to give it its own special place in the rainbow. What should we put in the rainbow next - fuchsia? Chartreuse? I remember arguing with my teacher about this in first grade, and I'm still right.





Look here: "It is commonly thought that indigo was included due to the different religious connotations of the numbers six and seven at the time of Isaac Newton's work on light, despite its lack of scientific significance and the poor ability of humans to distinguish colours in the blue portion of the visual spectrum." Ha! I was right! It was put there by the Fundies, just like "under god" in the pledge of allegiance.





Idiots.

Why are some people convinced that indigo is in the rainbow?
I blame Roy G. Biv!
Reply:negative. indigo IS in the rainbow as part of the distinguishable color spectrum. the actual rainbow follows the pattern ROY G BIV. this stands for:


Red


Orange


Yellow


Green


Blue


Indigo


Violet





And no, indigo is NOT blue, they are distinguishable accross the spectrum as more than just a shade difference. In fact, the inclusion of indigo in the rainbow occurred MUCH later than the religious fundamental movement in the renaissance, so moot point there.
Reply:Roy G. Biv is a good friend of mine as well,


Enjoy the rainbow, something like that shouldn't upset you so bad!
Reply:Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain


Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet





Because of the "In"





Maybe if I put it on my web site that will make it true also.





I like the idea of adding pink
Reply:because it is
Reply:rainbows are formed by light passing through drops of rain. like a prism the drolet separates white light into the spectrum colors of which indigo is a part.
Reply:u're soooo aggressive, by the way, indigo is in the rainbow
Reply:Indigo is in the rainbow, and so is Chartreuse. Fuchsia however is not in the rainbow. The reason is because the rainbow produces all visible colors that require only one spectral peak or no saturation. But some colors like Fuchsia require two spectral peaks, or if you like saturation. You also won't see white in the rainbow because it requires 3 spectral peaks, nor will you see black with 0 spectral peaks.





Fuchsia is a red-blue color, while chartreuse is a red-green color. All red green colors are possible, but not red-blue colors.





Definition of Indigo: "The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between blue and violet, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 450 nanometers; a dark blue to grayish purple blue."





Indigo is a Hue and therefore it corresponds to a color within the rainbow.





There are also infrared colors, and ultraviolet colors in the rainbow, but you can't see them.
Reply:Because we do not want to accept the gay rainbow.
Reply:According to the "Encarta Dictionary", your teacher was right.





Indigo


A deep purplish-blue colour that lies toward one end of the visible spectrum, between blue and violet, also called indigo blue
Reply:It looks like purple.
Reply:Good picture - very lifelike


Richard Of York Gained Battle In Vain.





What do you think the "I" stands for? Irridescence? Igloo? Indigo?
Reply:the whole spectrum of visible light is in a rainbow, from wavlengths of about 390 to 650 nanometers. The cutoff points that we define as the colors of the rainbow are completly arbitrary, there could be 10 thousand colors as easily as the ROYGBIV standard most people learn. However, as far as colors the human eyes can detect, you may just have a point. I am sure that there are some peopel out there with practice who can spot the difference between indigo and violet and blue, and I bet they work in a paint store.
Reply:Dispersion of visible light produces the colors red (R), orange (O), yellow (Y), green (G), blue (B), indigo (I), and violet (V). It is because of this that visible light is sometimes referred to as ROY G. BIV. (Incidentally, the indigo is not actually observed in the spectrum but is traditionally added to the list so that there is a vowel in Roy's last name.)
Reply:Indigo is a deep blue just a little lighter than navy, the color came by its name because of the indians (that is native to India) where they made a deep blue dye out of a fruit native to that area. Idiot!

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