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4 Aug 2024 20:17:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Color choice for IRTC project  
From: Xilo Musimene
Date: 21 Apr 2003 16:27:49
Message: <3EA3C70B.2050403@hotpop.com>
> Actually, when I was a child I was taught basic colours were red, blue and 
> yellow. Secondary colours would be green (blue + yellow), purple (red + 
> blue) and orange (yellow + red), cyan looks like a light blue.
> 
> I know this doesn't comply with colour theory, but it works when using real 
> paints (and when you're 6) ;)

Well those colors work in the Pigment theory, but in the Optics theory 
it's quite different, though the Pigment and Optic theory are linked as 
Pigment reflects Optics in a special manner...

Xilo

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