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Article #1050Re: Perceiving "Neon/Florescent" Colors
From: Paul Singleton
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:44
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:44
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From article <28843@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, by wrd@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Wm. Race Dowling):
> In article <1h5ehoINN707@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM> pstryjew@colsun.Central.Sun.COM writes:
> >How does the human eye perceive "Neon/Florescent" color (i.e. hot pink, blaze
> >orange, the Crayola Florescent Crayons)?
> >
> >I assume it has something to do with absorption of UV light, but where in the
> >spectrum do they reside? Are they hiding in the "visible" spectrum? How are
> >the dyes made, I can't make them with additive mixing of the three primaries.
There is nothing unusual in the way the eye perceives these colours. The
colours can be made by mixing red, green and blue light, but apparently
not by selective absorbtion of white light by dyes on paper. Not sure why.
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