What is Red-violet?
{{colorswatch|magenta |C71585}} '''Red-violet''' is a deep tone of rosy [[magenta]]. It may also be considered a reddish tone of [[purple]] or a bluish tone of [[Rose (color)|rose]]. On the old fashioned, now obsolete [[red]]-[[yellow]]-[[blue]] pigment [[color wheel]] (in which red, yellow, and blue were regarded as the primary colors and [[Orange (color)|orange]], [[green]], and [[Violet (color)|violet]] were regarded as the secondary colors), ''red-violet'' was a tertiary color between [[red]] and [[Violet (color)|violet]] on the red-yellow-blue pigment color wheel and thus was the equivalent of pigment purple. The other tertiary colors on a red-yellow-blue (RYB) color wheel were called [[blue-violet]], [[blue-green]], [[Chartreuse green|yellow-green]], [[Amber (color)|yellow-orange]], and [[Orange-red|red-orange]]. The RYB color wheel is still often used to teach color to [[children]]. {{-}} ==Meaning of red-violet== * Red-violet is used to represent [[wine]] (especially in [[advertising]] and in [[animated film]]s), and thus is associated with the [[Twelve Olympians|Greek god]] [[Dionysus]] and with celebrations, parties, [[night club]]s and the [[theatre]] in general (In [[Greek mythology]], Dionysus was the god of the theatre as well as of wine). ==Electric purple observed on spectrum beyond violet by ultraviolet sensitives== It has been reported by [[ophthalmologist]]s that those who have their lenses removed and replaced with clear plastic intraocular lenses can see partway into the [[ultraviolet]] and view electric purple (a tone of red-violet) on the [[spectrum]] beyond [[Violet (color)|Violet]] because it has been shown that the retina has some ultraviolet sensitivity which is normally blocked by the natural lens. Presumably, [[tetrachromat]]ic [[animal]]s such as [[bird]]s can also see this color on the spectrum. These observers able to see partially into the ultraviolet describe the color they can see beyond violet in the ultraviolet as a sort of [[lilac (color)|lilac]], that is, a reddish