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What is the wavelength of true brown?

What is the wavelength of true brown?

  • So much nm

    Votes: 11 22.4%
  • 42

    Votes: 7 14.3%
  • The weight that 4 meters of gallons smells like

    Votes: 16 32.7%
  • Ѡ

    Votes: 7 14.3%
  • A grey nm after a trip through a bear hive

    Votes: 8 16.3%

  • Total voters
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Yeah, monitors are a problem. Do you see 445nm from the converter with the slight tint of violet it has IRL? (note that this is mostly visible on the older diodes, that had lower WL)
 





IsaacT

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There is definitely a slight purple tinge to it. Ideally, the HEX code would show us a dark blue square with speckles of violet, but I don't think that is how HEX code works. then again, I am no coder lol.
 
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That hex code (#0019FF) looks pure blue here, not violet at all. Monitors suck :/
 
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For crying out loud guys. You may or may not like it, but the other threads *are* legitimate questions and have raised many interesting discussions. And they might even result in a better WL to RGB converter.

Every single one of these stupid polls could just be combined into one large discussion thread. That is the reason for the annoyance.

There can be discussion without being 10 different poll threads about every single color. It's not that it isn't a worthwhile discussion.
 
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Here are some ideas for the HEX convertor:

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By the way, I think the people who are so hostile to these threads have the same mentality as 911 conspiracy believers and people living in militia training camps in Idaho. Their very demeanor suggests a big burly guy sitting in a prison cell, borderline retarded, a hate symbol tatooed on his forehead.
 
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OMG -- I hoped my "scientific dysentery" about this
would blow it off the map -- but nooooo.
Learn to laugh guys -- life it too short.
HMike
 
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OMG -- I hoped my "scientific dysentery" about this
would blow it off the map -- but nooooo.
Learn to laugh guys -- life it too short.
HMike

Thanks for the encouragement, but I've decided to stop doing these polls. It's just not worth the aggravation.

On the other hand, the Wikipedia article on azure (sky blue) says, "Its dominant wavelength is about 488 nm." That doesn't look right. Aren't 473nm lasers pretty close to sky blue? My 490 looks cyan, not azure.

Azure is an important tertiary color, exactly halfway between blue and cyan. So is chartreuse (halfway between yellow and green), spring green (halfway between cyan and green), and indigo (halfway between blue and violet).

Then there's orange-red (halfway between orange and red). Of course orange is a tertiary color, which makes orange-red a quaternary color. In which case we may as well do all the other quaternary colors, just to round things out.

I don't know about quinary colors. (Have to give that some thought.) Then there are the [three-letter word for reproduction]-tary colors...
 
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Even a noob knows what the wavelength of true brown is!

It's the crappy ad thread "NEW Samsung Galaxy S5 16GB Original Shimmery White..$300" that popped up on top of this forum.
 
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That hex code (#0019FF) looks pure blue here, not violet at all. Monitors suck :/

I AGREE!! They TOTALLY SUCK!!

We should get RID of ALL monitors NOW!

Sorry, I just HAD TO....:)


Anyway, back to the brown laser- A bit of laser trivia for those curious about brown laser theory and practical implementation:

Q. What is the most common excitation mechanism for a brown laser?:thinking:

A. In its most basic form, a brown laser is a chemical laser, relying on the interaction of thousands of interdependent reactions occurring between organic compounds within the "cavity" . The most efficient catalyst used to promote these reactions has been demonstrated to be a mixture of twelve parts Taco Bell, and one part Ex-Lax.:D

LET 'ER RIP!
 

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You are getting off topic .. I mean brown lasers would be really cool. It's no laughing matter ..
 




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