| Subtractive color
mixing: light colors are subtracted
from one white light beam |
| blue + yellow = green |
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| white light beam = |
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| sum of all
spectral colors |
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| spectrum |
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| light |
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| blue paint |
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| (ultramarine) |
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| shining on: |
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| Green |
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only color |
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by both |
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| the
blue and |
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| yellow
paints. |
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| All
red, orange, |
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| yellow,
blue, |
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| violet
removed. |
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| yellow paint |
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| (cadmium yellow) |
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| One light beam!!!! |