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Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next

to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–


740 nanometres.[1] It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondary
color (made from magenta and yellow) in the CMYK color model, and is the
complementary color of cyan. Reds range from the brilliant yellow-tinged scarlet
and vermillion to bluish-red crimson, and vary in shade from the pale red pink to
the dark red burgundy.[2]

Red pigment made from ochre was one of the first colors used in prehistoric art.
The Ancient Egyptians and Mayans colored their faces red in ceremonies; Roman
generals had their bodies colored red to celebrate victories. It was also an
important color in China, where it was used to color early pottery and later the
gates and walls of palaces.[3]: 60–61 In the Renaissance, the brilliant red
costumes for the nobility and wealthy were dyed with kermes and cochineal. The 19th
century brought the introduction of the first synthetic red dyes, which replaced
the traditional dyes. Red became a symbolic color of communism and socialism;
Soviet Russia adopted a red flag following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. The
Soviet red banner would subsequently be used throughout the entire history of the
Soviet Union, starting from 1922 and ending with its 1991 dissolution. China
adopted its own red flag following the Chinese Communist Revolution. A red flag was
also adopted by North Vietnam in 1954, and by all of Vietnam in 1975.

Since red is the color of blood, it has historically been associated with
sacrifice, danger, and courage. Modern surveys in Europe and the United States show
red is also the color most commonly associated with heat, activity, passion,
sexuality, anger, love, and joy. In China, India, and many other Asian countries it
is the color symbolizing happiness and good fortune.[4]: 39–63

Shades and variations


Main article: Shades of red
Varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma (also called saturation,
intensity, or colorfulness), or lightness (or value, tone, or brightness), or in
two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and
shades, a tint being a red or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with
black. Four examples are shown below.

The cardinal takes its name from the color worn by Catholic cardinals.

Pink is a pale shade of red. Cherry blossoms in the Tsutsujigaoka Park, Sendai,
Miyagi, Japan.

Vermilion is similar to scarlet, but slightly more orange. This is sindoor, a red
cosmetic powder used in India; some Hindu women put a stripe of sindoor along their
hair parting to show they are married.[5][6]

Ruby is the color of a cut and polished ruby gemstone.


In science and nature
Seeing red

Bulls, like dogs and many other animals, have dichromacy, which means they cannot
distinguish the color red. They charge the matador's cape because of its motion,
not its color.
The human eye sees red when it looks at light with a wavelength between
approximately 625 and 740 nanometers.[1] It is a primary color in the RGB color
model and the light just past this range is called infrared, or below red, and
cannot be seen by human eyes, although it can be sensed as heat.[7] In the language
of optics, red is the color evoked by light that stimulates neither the S or the M
(short and medium wavelength) cone cells of the retina, combined with a fading
stimulation of the L (long-wavelength) cone cells.[8]

Primates can distinguish the full range of the colors of the spectrum visible to
humans, but many kinds of mammals, such as dogs and cattle, have dichromacy, which
means they can see blues and yellows, but cannot distinguish red and green (both
are seen as gray). Bulls, for instance, cannot see the red color of the cape of a
bullfighter, but they are agitated by its movement.[9] (See color vision).

One theory for why primates developed sensitivity to red is that it allowed ripe
fruit to be distinguished from unripe fruit and inedible vegetation.[10] This may
have driven further adaptations by species taking advantage of this new ability,
such as the emergence of red faces.[11]

Red light is used to help adapt night vision in low-light or night time, as the rod
cells in the human eye are not sensitive to red.[12][13]

In color theory and on a computer screen


In the RYB color model, which is the basis of traditional color theory, red is one
of the three primary colors, along with blue and yellow. Painters in the
Renaissance mixed red and blue to make violet: Cennino Cennini, in his 15th-century
manual on painting, wrote, "If you want to make a lovely violet colour, take fine
lac

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