i am male, and read often that i am a trichromat at best. this has led to much confusion.

when i actually look at light that has passed through a prism aimed at presumably the same star as represented here, i have always found many more bright, distinct color bands than these.

more: to these eyes, all distinct colors have similar widths & brilliance-intensities…if i were to construct a similarly-intended image, more bright colors would fill more of the total space and in equal amounts, with even blending betwixt them. in order of long-short wavelengths, the following colors appear distinctly:

Bruno
Red
Orange
Yellow
Chartreuse
Green
Cyan
Blue
Indigo
Violet
Magenta
Pink
Et Cetera (off the page)

you could perhaps get a team of artists, especially women, to do various renderings of this…there are no ‘correct’ colors, just varying perceptions of them…