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Similarly, aim just the red light and the blue light at the
wall. The result will be magenta. Varying the intensity of
these two lights creates another spectrum of colors.
Aim the green and blue lights at the wall and you get cyan,
sort of an aqua. At this point the neighbors have probably
called the police thinking aliens have invaded your house.
Switch on all three lights and you'll see white. Equal
amounts of red, green, and blue make white. Vary the intensity
of any light and you create a pastel of any color. Bright colors
result from using bright lights. Dim the lights and you make
dark colors. Turn them all out and you see black, naturally.
Red, green, and blue are not the only primary colors; there
are other trios that can make all the colors. Because red,
green, and blue are easy to work with, they have become the
primary colors used in the television industry for designing TV
cameras and TV sets.
The artist does the same thing when painting. Blue paint
on a white canvas will absorb all the colors except the red,
which is reflected back to your eye. Dab some yellow paint
elsewhere on the canvas and only yellow light will reflect from
that area and you will see yellow. Now for more magic: mix some
of the yellow paint with the blue paint and you see green. Mix
red, green, and blue together and you'll get ... icky brown.
What happened here? Wasn't red, green, and blue supposed to
equal white?
making the sun bluish. A bright blue sky also adds some blue to
your picture. In the real world it is almost impossible to get
perfectly white light to shoot by. How we get around this
problem will be explained in a moment, but first another physics
lesson.
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