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This is how subtractive colour works. Cyan = (White minus red) = (Green+Blue) Magenta = (White minus green) = (Red+Blue) Yellow = (White minus blue) = (Red+G
by HPsquared 4y ago
This is how subtractive colour works.
Cyan = (White minus red) = (Green+Blue)
Magenta = (White minus green) = (Red+Blue)
Yellow = (White minus blue) = (Red+Green)
So if you lay perfect cyan, magenta and yellow pigments over each other you should get black (in theory).
EDIT: though, of course, there is no monochromatic "magenta wavelength". There is a cyan wavelength, though.
- hammock 4y agoYeah I get that I mean more specifically what shade of cyan or magenta. “Yellow” sure but according to the article, specifically National School Bus Yellow.
- mncharity 4y ago> according to the article, specifically National School Bus Yellow. Yeah, no. I suggest skipping that paragraph. I read it first as demonstrating how rapidly quality of understanding can deteriorate as you move away from someone's areas of expertise. But on rereading, I could see how a non-science journalist might mangle someone's valid description that badly. And if the interviewee was Ivan (R) Schwab (of UCDavis), I'd lean towards a mangle.