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

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 ...

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 ...

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

purple and violet aren’t the same thing. According to ZME Science, there are three types of cone cells of the eye’s retinas that respond to the colors red, green, or blue. There’s no single ...

Purple, a color often associated with royalty and creativity, isn't a true color of light. Instead, it's a creation of our ...

Earth's oceans could one day turn purple. Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a ...

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo are all just as real. But purple? Well, purple is just your brain’s way of resolving confusion. That’s right. Red and blue (or violet) wavelengths ...