While violet hits your eye with a specific wavelength, purple only exists in your perception — a clever construct built from conflicting input.

Popular Mechanics reports that purple is a “pigment of your imagination”: The human eye doesn’t actually see purple.

It turns out that one of the colors we see in the world every single day is actually just a pigment of our imagination — er, sorry, figment of our imagination. Scientists say it's a sort of collective ...

Purple is a combination of wavelengths from opposite extremes of the spectrum, which technically deosn’t make any sense, but our brains evolved a solution. When we “see” a combination of blue and red ...

Scientists have revealed that purple, a popular color often associated with royalty, is fake. A figment of our imaginations.

The color spectrum in this case start with infared which is red and the coolest up to ultraviolet which appears violet and is the hottest. Lightning also can take on a range of colors, depending ...

Why Trust Us? The human eye does not actually see purple, as purple is not a color on the visual spectrum. Purple is a combination of wavelengths from opposite extremes of the spectrum ...