and also, i think you misunderstood my original point
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Originally Posted by Orruar
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combining paint with the color at ~700nm (red) with paint with the color at ~580nm (yellow) will produce paint with color at ~600nm (orange)
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that's all fine and dandy, and i understand how mixing two colors will give you a color roughly in between those two on the spectrum
but why then when you mix red (long wavelength) with blue (short wavelength) do you get purple (even shorter wavelength)?