h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have given it some thought, and as much as I am familiar with my own psychic, I m still at a lose to ultimately declare why a have a passionate dislike for this colour.

at the end of the day, whether a medical problem or personal taste.

If we were all the same - we'd be

Here's another:

The Purple Topshell (Gibbula umbilicalis), becoming more common on the south coast.

Also did I mention purpura, which is a purple skin discolouration.



MMF

Purple doesn't occur in the rainbow. Violet does, beyond blue; but purple is definitely reddish, which is the other end of the spectrum. It is amazing that we see colours as a circle -- there is no reason in nature why the two ends (violet and red) should join together, yet we see purple as "an intermediate between them"; in pigments we mix red and blue to get purple. As such it is a totally artificial colour, which doesn't stop flowers and butterflies and birds from synthesising it.

No doubt you have an entry on colours in general.

Gnomon, can you include this please if appropriate.

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species.php?vernacular_name=Purple%20Emperor

Fascinating subject all round isn't it?

Websailor

Don't forget to mention Amethysts are purple - and that there is a natural resource in Achill, Co Mayo, Eire.



I spent a very happy day there finding the natural crystals within the top part of the scree there. Achill's made it a Tourist Attraction - or they had, when I lived in Mayo, anyway.

FTR, Purple is probably my favourite colour. And Amethysts are probably my least favourite crystal.

Recumbentman: C55832 - colours of the visible spectrum. It's quite sparse and no, we don't have an overview of colours in general. I have stopped adding to my list of articles to be written because it's already too long for me to cope with. Perhaps someone else will be inspired by this journal.

GB

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I always intended to write a series of entries on Colour Vision, but it would need five or six to do it justice and I just never got around to it.

This was the beginning of it: A4313882

You are going really in-depth, eh?

As I said, I abandoned that project. I'll stick to purple for the moment.

Ah, my error, too excited about me to read the words properly

Sorry

There seems to be few things in the natural world that are purple.

http://www.thepurplestore.com/

Had a look! confirms my belief, better to stay indoors as against to venturing out either wearing or in something that colour, double Yuk.

I've added the following as authors of the Purple entry, although it is not finished yet:

Mazin Mad Fiddler for Murex brandaris, Royal Purple
Galaxy Babe for dye-making process
Websailor for I Shall Wear Purple
TRiG for The purple cow, the imperial colour
lil for Purple Rain, purple in churches
Wilma for the Land of Purple
Belana for The Colour Purple
Icy North for purple heart, purple haze, nothing rhymes with purple
Recumbentman for clotted blood; non-spectral colour
Evadne Cake for amethysts

The entry, which I'll remind you is at A572168, is coming on nicely. All contributions considered.

The book, 'The Color Purple' was written by american Alice Walker and was published in 1982.

She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.