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> Blue is more rare in nature than other colors

Since the sky and the ocean are blue, that suggests a majority of visual field in nature contains blue in most cases.



Daylight sky, with emphasis on daylight, and ocean blue only for people living next to a large body of water. Objects in nature are rarely blue. At night, nothing is blue, most of our history the only color at night is the orange-reddish of the camp fire (and yes, 100 years of light bulbs don't replace 50,000 years of conditioning of camp fires).


Yes but not the deep intense blue from most standby LEDs.


Same could be said of green or red though. I think it’s time to stop repeating this just-so story.


Hmm no but the intense deep blue is not good for the eyes and can even damage the retina at intensity.

Green or red don't have this issue.

It also has a noticeably different refractory index which is why red directly beside blue looks 'off'.




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