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Where can I see visualizations of light waves that aren't pure sine waves?
They must exist. Otherwise, what form would mixtures of two pure wavelengths take?
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@j_bertolotti Are there any that are measured from a real light source?
Is it even possible to do that?

@j_bertolotti Or reflected from an object, etc

@j_bertolotti Can you point me to any measurements of low frequency waveforms?

@j_bertolotti Thank you.

@j_bertolotti It's a shame it can't be done for visible light. I would like to see examples of colours alongside their waveforms, like how it's somewhat popular to do with sounds.

For instance, it would be cool to see how, as far as I understand, different waveforms can look like the same colour due to the way our eyes work (please correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm not a physicist or a biologist)