Impossible color
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Impossible colors or forbidden colors are supposed colors that cannot be perceived in normal seeing of light that is a combination of various intensities of the various frequencies of visible light, but are reported to be seen in special circumstances.
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See also
- Bastard color: in theatre lighting, typically in a color gel, a color blended with small amounts of complementary colors.
- Color
- Color mixing
- Color vision
- False-color image, an image that depicts an object in colors that differ from those that a visible-colors-only photograph would show.
- List of fictional colors, mostly as seen by fictional aliens whose eyes work differently from human eyes.
- Middle gray, a shade of gray used to adjust photographs to match perceptual brightness as opposed to absolute brightness as measured by a digital camera.
- Non-visible electromagnetic waves, such as radio waves, microwaves, X-rays, etc.
- Spectral color
- Tetrachromacy, having four primary colors
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