Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 days agoYour display contains no yellow pixels - yet it displays the color yellow just finemessage-squaremessage-square53linkfedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up171arrow-down1message-squareYour display contains no yellow pixels - yet it displays the color yellow just fineIconoclast@feddit.uk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 days agomessage-square53linkfedilinkfile-text
Applies to many other colors as well. I “understand” why that is but it hurts my brain to think about.
minus-squareCmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 days agoIt was definitely strange to learn that mixing all colors of light together makes white light while mixing all paint colors together makes black paint.
minus-squarebufalo1973@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoOne process adds frequencies, the other substracts them. Paint colors are “the frequency that gets not absorbed”.
It was definitely strange to learn that mixing all colors of light together makes white light while mixing all paint colors together makes black paint.
One process adds frequencies, the other substracts them. Paint colors are “the frequency that gets not absorbed”.