A rainbow has a continuous distribution of wavelengths. These are not at all the same thing as colors!
Quoting Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You would do well to get people to recognize more than a dozen spot > colours, too -- we are tuned to recognizing quite large blobs of colour. > We see only about a dozen colours in a rainbow, which has infinitely many > and they are adjacent. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ____________________ Ken Knoblauch Inserm U 371 Cerveau et Vision 18 avenue du Doyen Lepine 69675 Bron cedex France tel: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 77 fax: +33 (0)4 72 92 34 61 portable: 06 84 10 64 10 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
