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it was named before purple was invented
Ok, so we can never ever change the name.
So says Robin Red Breast, the bird with orange belly feathers
Big Blue is doing the same thing with blue grapes. Poor purple…
WTF are blue grapes?!?!
The chewing gum company is behind this?!?
- It’s* a conspiracy
- It’s* time to take down
There was no word for purple back then.
And yet they had purple onions. Curious.
Damn it Ben crawl back in the hole
Also knew about rainbows I’m sure
It was taken from us by the Kaiser.
So I tied a red onion to my belt, which was the style at the time…
Gimme 5 bees for a quarter you’d say.
The future is now old man. Free the onion
Until you cook them. Then they’re purple-ly clear.
or you cook them with a base, like baking soda, then they turn green
Is this that “alchemy” thing I’ve heard so much about?
Or soak them in vinegar and they turn pink and make a delicious sandwich topping.
Atomic Purple
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I like this. I think we’re really getting into the nitty gritty of it now
This comment chain reads like the Magneto “no the real Purple Onion” meme.
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Template
Not my cleanest work but it’s fine if you don’t look too close
Looks great mate, no one would notice if they don’t know.
Also I think the template in itself is funny in an anti joke kind of way where you expect him to be protesting something but then he’s just holding up an empty piece of cardboard really passionately lol.
They played us for absolute fools…
With this knowledge, we can’t left him alive.
- The onion industry, probably.
Anthocyanins
Tor?
I can. Easily. But then, I have color perception deficiency. But do not luck ability to argue as compensation.
They can be purplish in some growth stages but on the whole they are a deep red, a crimson. Unless my eyes are just broken.
https://duckduckgo.com/?kp=-2&q=red+onion&iax=images&ia=images
About half of the pictures I see are Purple.
None of those are red. They’re all close to red, but none of them are actually red.
Anthocyanins are responsible for the color and they act as a pH indicator, changing color from bright red in acid to bright blue in basic solutions. Soil acidity could have an impact on their color at harvest, but it also really depends on how you use them. If you put them raw in a salad, they’ll probably turn quite red regardless, but it’s also quite common to find them as a purple color.
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color spectrum
Explain. I’m too high to understand this.
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Fine do you want to call it a violet onion then? They are basically the exact same damn thing and violet is a wavelength
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You’re right about our perception but the color spectrum is based on wavelengths and doesn’t represent color mixing. It only does that when you make a circle out of it and then you see purple between blue and red and that’s your standard RGB color wheel.
Colored lights do mix. It’s called an additive color since you are adding different lights to create a new color. So red and blue light does Infact create purple light and to get green you have to mix red and yellow light. Mixing RGB or CMY creates white this way.
The other is subtractive color mixing, like when we paint, to get green we mix blue and yellow instead. Mixing CMY, RYB or RGB would give you black.
Thanks for the TIL
Just because violet light triggers both red and blue receptors in our eyes, that doesn’t mean there is only discrete red and blue light hitting them. It’s just that light with 380nm to 450nm wavelength triggers both typed of receptors. So there is violet light.
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You ARE the color
You’re the only color I need
Umm…
In short: Purple doesn’t have it’s own wavelength. Neither does white, black and the entire gray-scale or any mixing of any colour with the gray-scale and probably more. They’re called non spectral colours.
It might be easier to understand when considering other types of waves. At least it is for me. A simple sound can also be described as a wave with a frequency, but if we play two sounds at the same time, we can’t say that the sum of the waves has any specific frequency. The frequencies don’t add up or multiply or mix as average. The combined sound can only be described as the addition of two frequencies.
In musical terms, purple is not a note, but instead a chord or interval. Red and blue can be individual notes, or they can be mixed as intervals. White is noise and black is silence.
Yeah, that doesn’t mean it isn’t a “real” color.
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Violet is purple.
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No need to be such an asshole about it. Keep that on reddit.
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Interesting… So they’re two different colors right?
So purple is a color.
I think it’s better to make the distinction between color and light wavelenght instead of just saying purple isn’t real.
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In my native language it’s actually called purple onion.
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If my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle
