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"As an example, try visualizing a color made from red and green (not the mixture of the two pigments, which would be brown, but a hypothetical color 'reen' made
by alanfalcon 15y ago
"As an example, try visualizing a color made from red and green (not the mixture of the two pigments, which would be brown, but a hypothetical color 'reen' made from elements of each)."
Um, yellow is the combination of red and green. Am I missing something?
EDIT: I just feel the author does a poor job of wording his thought experiment. When I visualize a mixture of red and green I visualize either brown or yellow, and since he said he didn't mean brown that leaves yellow.
- windsurfer 15y agoThere are different ways to mix color: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_color http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_color http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_color http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_color Light is additive, so that's yellow. He's talking about pigments and paints, which are subtractive.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- secoif 15y agoYes. You're thinking additive colour mixing, while the author is taking subtractive colour mixing. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_color http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_color http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_color http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_color