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by Sharlin 409 days ago
> Our eyes are much more sensitive to Blue/Violet, and less sensitive to green.

Hm? It's the exact opposite. That's why the full-intensity RGB green looks much brighter than the full-intensity blue. To convert RGB to pure luminance (gray), you do something like 0.3 * R + 0.6 * G + 0.1 * B, meaning green contributes six times as much as blue.