I don't understand how Red and Blue makes Magenta?

[Vivaldi]

Wave lenghts go this way

Beyond Red, Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Magenta, Beyond Magenta

Blue is a color that is closer to Red than Magenta is to Red.

Mix of Red and Blue is supposed to have a color between Red and Blue but instead, it gets a color beyond Blue. Why so?

[Astarlessnightsky]

Thats not Magenta, thats purple.

Magenta is somekind of pink.

The more colours you mix the more receptors in the eye send signals to the brain.

Red receptors see red, blue receptors see blue, and when both receptors see a colour simultaniously the brain sees it as purple or a shade of purple depending on how strong each of the two colour receptors sends the signal.

With human eyes its the four base colours RGB, other animals have less or more receptors so they less colours or more/different colours.

Tigers don't know they are bright orange as they can't see the colour, they only got 2 receptors and see themselves as greenish, which is a far better camouflage.

[Vivaldi]

Maganta is very close to purple.

[ArtemisSilver]

Looks at the hex codes for each of the colors and it should be pretty clear.

[shortster]

Red and blue make purple. Magenta in this example is very purplely.