Overlapping Beams of G & B Make Cyan
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This is one of a set of 3 diagrams showing pairs of RGB primary coloursprojected onto a neutral coloured surface.
In this diagram green and blue primary colours overlap to produce cyan.
Understanding the diagrams:
- The diagrams illustrate how the RGB colour model works in practice.
- The two primary colours have the same intensity.
- Each torch points towards a different area of the surface so they overlap.
- The light in each case is of a single wavelength so produces a spectral colour.
- The selected wavelengths are: green = 525, blue = 460 nm.
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Overlapping Beams of G & B Make Cyan
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About the diagram
About the diagram
- This is one of a set of 3 diagrams showing pairs of RGB primary colours projected onto a neutral coloured surface.
- In this diagram green and blue primary colours overlap to produce cyan.
Understanding the diagrams
- The diagrams illustrate how the RGB colour model works in practice.
- The two primary colours in each diagram are of the same intensity.
- The light sources are arranged so that the colours overlap.
- The light source in each case is produced by a single wavelength of light.
- The selected wavelengths are: green = 525 nanometres (nm) blue = 460 nm.
About the RGB colour model
- RGB colour is an additive colour model that combines wavelengths of light corresponding with the red, green and blue primary colours to produce other colours.
- RGB colour is called a model because it is a method that can be followed to produce any colour from a combination of red, green and blue light sources.
- Red, green and blue are called additive primary colours in an RGB colour model because they can be added together to produce other colours.
- When mixing light, each RGB primary colour is called a component of the resulting colour.
- Different colours are produced by varying the intensity of the component colours between fully off and fully on.
- When the light sources that produce the red, green and blue primary colours are at full intensity, together they produce white.
- Each light source at full intensity produces a fully saturated colour.
- When any two fully saturated RGB primaries are combined they produce a secondary colour (yellow, cyan or magenta).
- Some applications of the RGB colour model can produce over 16 million colours by varying the intensity of each of the three component primary colours.
- The additive RGB colour model cannot be used for mixing opaque pigments, paints or powders. To understand these colourants find out about subtractive colour models.
- The RGB colour model does not define the precise wavelength (or band of wavelengths) for the three primary colours.
- When the exact composition of primary colours are defined, the colour model then becomes an absolute colour space.
Some key terms
Colour model
Primary colour
Colour wheel
What is the trichromatic colour model?
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