Roy G. Biv is a mnemonic for the sequence of hues in the visible spectrum and in rainbows:
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet
A rainbow spans a continuous spectrum of colours; and the distinct bands are an artifact of human colour vision. In Roy G. Biv, the colours are arranged in the order of decreasing wavelengths, with red being 650 nm* and violet being about 400 nm. The reverse VIBGYOR is used in many Commonwealth countries.
*A nanometer is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth of a metre. The nanometre is often used to express dimensions on the atomic scale: the diameter of a helium atom, for example, is about 0.1 nm, and that of a ribosome is about 20 nm. The nanometre is commonly used to specify the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation near the visible part of the spectrum: visible light, in particular, ranges from 400 to 700 nm.
Comic book writer Geoff Johns** created the idea of an Emotional Spectrum around "Roy G. Biv" for his Green Lantern comic series for DC Comics. Beginning with the central and most powerful colour of green, which is attached to willpower, he devised a sliding scale of emotional control, where the colours at the opposite ends of the spectrum, red (rage) and violet (love) are the most powerful and controlling over their users and their surroundings. Orange becomes the light of avarice (greed), yellow the colour of fear, blue is the light of hope, and indigo the personification of compassion. Each light has its corresponding Lantern Corps and power ring.
** Wiki tells us that Geoff Johns worked on The Flash and Superman.
Roy G. Biv was also a pseudonym for the evil mastermind behind the plot of Sam & Max Season One***.
***Sam & Max was mainly designed and written by a combination of Brendan Q. Ferguson, Steve Purcell and Dave Grossman****.
****Steve Purcell and Dave Grossman both worked at Lucas Arts during their adventure games era and Dave Grossman wrote and programmed The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (together with Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer****)*****. He later co-designed Day of the Tentacle. This is him at Comicon:
Dave Grossman > and/or = Guybrush Threepwood.
****Tim Schafer is best known as the designer - and it seems writer - of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango.
******And so follows some of the classics from the Monkey Island series:
Guybrush: At least I’ve learnt something from all of this.
Elaine: What’s that? Guybrush: Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game. Elaine: A what? Guybrush: I don't know. I have no idea why I said that.
Barkeep: Guybrush? Is that a French name? Guybrush: No, actually it’s a fictional name.
[Looking through a keyhole] Guybrush Threepwood: I see a diorama of the children of the world living in peace
and freedom. No, wait. It can't be that. It's just too dark to make out what's in there.
Guybrush: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Carpenter: A woodchuck would chuck no amount of wood since a woodchuck can’t chuck wood. Guybrush: But if a woodchuck could chuck and would chuck some amount of wood, what amount of wood would a woodchuck chuck? Carpenter: Even if a woodchuck could chuck wood and even if a woodchuck would chuck wood, should a woodchuck chuck wood? Guybrush: A woodchuck should chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, as long as a woodchuck would chuck wood. Carpenter: Oh shut up.
Roygbiv is also a song by Boards of Canada on their album Music Has the Right to Children (1998). They're Scottish. Wikipedia says many of the songs on Music Has the Right to Children utilise a number of field recordings******* and intense sound manipulation.
*******Field recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside of a recording studio. Field recording of natural sounds is called phonography. "Field recordings" may also refer to simple monaural or stereo recordings taken of musicians in familiar and casual surroundings.
Roygbiv (more accurately Bocuma / Roygbiv) also has an unofficial video attached to it.
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet
A rainbow spans a continuous spectrum of colours; and the distinct bands are an artifact of human colour vision. In Roy G. Biv, the colours are arranged in the order of decreasing wavelengths, with red being 650 nm* and violet being about 400 nm. The reverse VIBGYOR is used in many Commonwealth countries.
*A nanometer is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth of a metre. The nanometre is often used to express dimensions on the atomic scale: the diameter of a helium atom, for example, is about 0.1 nm, and that of a ribosome is about 20 nm. The nanometre is commonly used to specify the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation near the visible part of the spectrum: visible light, in particular, ranges from 400 to 700 nm.
Comic book writer Geoff Johns** created the idea of an Emotional Spectrum around "Roy G. Biv" for his Green Lantern comic series for DC Comics. Beginning with the central and most powerful colour of green, which is attached to willpower, he devised a sliding scale of emotional control, where the colours at the opposite ends of the spectrum, red (rage) and violet (love) are the most powerful and controlling over their users and their surroundings. Orange becomes the light of avarice (greed), yellow the colour of fear, blue is the light of hope, and indigo the personification of compassion. Each light has its corresponding Lantern Corps and power ring.
** Wiki tells us that Geoff Johns worked on The Flash and Superman.
Roy G. Biv was also a pseudonym for the evil mastermind behind the plot of Sam & Max Season One***.
***Sam & Max was mainly designed and written by a combination of Brendan Q. Ferguson, Steve Purcell and Dave Grossman****.
****Steve Purcell and Dave Grossman both worked at Lucas Arts during their adventure games era and Dave Grossman wrote and programmed The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (together with Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer****)*****. He later co-designed Day of the Tentacle. This is him at Comicon:
Dave Grossman > and/or = Guybrush Threepwood.
****Tim Schafer is best known as the designer - and it seems writer - of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango.
******And so follows some of the classics from the Monkey Island series:
Guybrush: At least I’ve learnt something from all of this.
Barkeep: Guybrush? Is that a French name?
[Looking through a keyhole]
and freedom. No, wait. It can't be that. It's just too dark to make out what's in there.
Guybrush: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Roygbiv is also a song by Boards of Canada on their album Music Has the Right to Children (1998). They're Scottish. Wikipedia says many of the songs on Music Has the Right to Children utilise a number of field recordings******* and intense sound manipulation.
*******Field recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside of a recording studio. Field recording of natural sounds is called phonography. "Field recordings" may also refer to simple monaural or stereo recordings taken of musicians in familiar and casual surroundings.
Roygbiv (more accurately Bocuma / Roygbiv) also has an unofficial video attached to it.
