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> That's just about caring or differentiating about relatively small difference.

Which this is all about! The author talks about 51 Munsell color samples out of 1500, so only 3% of the gamut.

Look how specific "violet" is in the Munsell system: https://munsell.com/color-blog/munsell-book-of-color-1929-tr... (violet is at #17).

Yes, the article itself is nice but the title isn't. "Why it took us thousands of years to see the colour violet".

What do you make of plums in still life paintings? I don't know if it fills the criteria for violet. https://vsemart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Peaches-and-p...

Yes yes, but still: the title is pure idiocy.