In the visible light spectrum, there is no purple. There is indigo and there is violet. No purple.
Why Do The Vikings Uniforms Look Blue?
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I have always noticed this color difference. Even on the uni there are sometimes variations in how purple things look. The helmets are always right on though!
What!??
Yeah I'm not seeing any purple here . . .
He's correct and he's incorrect. There is a violet/purple light wave, however, as a pigment and in lighting, there is no such thing as a violet/purple. In pigments (subtractive color modeling, as in dyes), violet/purple is a combination of the base pigments magenta and cyan (and depending on the tint, yellow and/or black), and in lighting (additive color modeling, as in what you see on your TV screen), violet/purple is a combination of the base light colors red and blue (and depending on the tint, green).
And purple is basically the "generic" name for what is technically violet (although I'm sure there is an actual defined violet color named "purple"). What I mean is when people say purple, they're generally referring to violet.
Subtractive color
Additive color
[Thanks for the feedback. I've thought about calibration; the Geek Squad wants $300. I read you can try to do it on your own, with a special DVD and some 'calibrating glasses', but I'm not sure I can trust myself.
Have you had your HDTV calibrated? What do you recommend?]
Right now it is only 200 dollars for a calibration, it is well worth it, if u have any questons come on in, My name is Gerrit and i Work at best buy
Have you had your HDTV calibrated? What do you recommend?]
Right now it is only 200 dollars for a calibration, it is well worth it, if u have any questons come on in, My name is Gerrit and i Work at best buy
Whatever Mr. Smartypants.He's correct and he's incorrect. There is a violet/purple light wave, however, as a pigment and in lighting, there is no such thing as a violet/purple. In pigments (subtractive color modeling, as in dyes), violet/purple is a combination of the base pigments magenta and cyan (and depending on the tint, yellow and/or black), and in lighting (additive color modeling, as in what you see on your TV screen), violet/purple is a combination of the base light colors red and blue (and depending on the tint, green).
And purple is basically the "generic" name for what is technically violet (although I'm sure there is an actual defined violet color named "purple"). What I mean is when people say purple, they're generally referring to violet.
Subtractive color
Additive color
No offense, I'm a huge Vikings fan, but I'd rather keep the $200 than have my TV show a little more purple in the Vikings Uniforms.
Here is the deal. I'm a graphic designer by trade. Color is a big part of what I do. We've had people in and out of here to "calibrate" our monitors and to be quite honest, the actual numbers of what color is there, never match up to what I'm viewing on screen. And it's doubtful anyone will figure out how to do it perfectly. Simply, you are taking the uniform that displays color by reflecting light to a TV that is projecting that light. They just don't gel all that well. I'm not saying you can't make the color more pretty or display better on TV, but it's never going to be perfect. You would have to calibrate the TV to every camera that's being used. The camera is interpreting the light it is picking up. Your TV is then interpreting what the camera is interpreting.
The helmets were old too. They are always slightly different looking, however.
Old helmet last night-
Current helmet
Note the more 3 d look in the current ones, plus a lighter more metallic color.
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