Talk:violet
Another def
[edit]Comment: another definition could be added: the violet flower itself (noun), as opposed to the whole plant. Badagnani 19:49, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Voylet
[edit]Ebenezer Cobham Brewer's Errors of Speech and of Spelling says that in his day (1877), the pronunciation "voy'.let" was a common error. - -sche (discuss) 21:17, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Physics, colors, and the limits of monitor-produced colors
[edit]In physics, the authorities treat the far end of the spectrum as "violet," and the range beyond, which people with eyes that have not had their lenses replaced with clear glass or plastic can't see, as ultra-violet. "Purple" is treated as a color produced by mixing red and blue pigments.
There is no way that most monitors can produce frequencies in the violet range, so any on-monitor version of "violet" is going to be some mixture of the colors that the screens can produce.
Having grown up in the US school system, the "true" idea of purple is given by the color labeled "purple" in Crayola construction paper. If you have the real thing, you will perhaps get a more accurate sensory input, but the on-line images aren't bad as far as I am concerned. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Crayola-Construction-Colored-Paper-in-10-Colors-School-Supplies-for-Kindergarten-120-Pcs-Child/35756553?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&wl13=2793&gclsrc=aw.ds&adid=2222222227735756553_117755028669_12420145346&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=501107745824&wl4=pla-394283752452&wl5=9009606&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=local&wl12=35756553&veh=sem_LIA&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwpZWzBhC0ARIsACvjWRMqLmr4qyUbcX7mliTQ9sIctvg7Do0A4LsfgDe1ZjeaCmzb1fV4r_UaAkOpEALw_wcB
My primary school had a good glass prism and a window open to the sun, so I was introduced to that far end of the rainbow early in life. What I saw fanning out from the prism was *not* the purple of our construction paper.