Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
> > If the sky is "blue", why do you see a yellow sun ?

>   The sun is not yellow. It's white.

  To elaborate: The color yellow is something like rgb <1, 1, 0>.
The color white is rgb <1, 1, 1>. If you take colors between those two,
at which point does the yellow change to white?

  The Sun does certainly not look like rgb <1, 1, 0>. If it did, then
every blue object would look black.

  The Sun might not emit a light that's exactly <1, 1, 1>, but it's pretty
damn close to it. Hence it's way whiter than yellow. Saying that the sun is
yellow is extremely misleading.

  Also the *apparent* color of the Sun is certainly white to our eyes
(because it's so damn bright).

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                                                          - Warp

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