Additive Color Mixing
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A method of creating colors by combining different wavelengths of light, where adding all colors together produces white.
Additive mixing is the principle behind all screen-based color, including monitors, TVs, phones, and projectors. The primary colors in additive mixing are red, green, and blue (RGB). Red and green light combine to produce yellow, green and blue produce cyan, and red and blue produce magenta. When all three primaries are combined at full intensity, the result is white light. This system works because our eyes have three types of cone cells that respond to red, green, and blue wavelengths, and our brain interprets the combined signals as specific colors.
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