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General Science => General Science => Topic started by: paul.fr on 02/10/2007 05:27:03

Title: Why are the primary colours different for light and dyes?
Post by: paul.fr on 02/10/2007 05:27:03

Why?

Title: Why are the primary colours different for light and dyes?
Post by: lightarrow on 02/10/2007 08:11:31

Quote from: paul.fr on 02/10/2007 05:27:03

Why?

Additive and subtractive synthesys. Light colours adds, while pigments colours subtracts. There has been a thread (or more than one) about it, with longer explanations.

Title: Why are the primary colours different for light and dyes?
Post by: another_someone on 02/10/2007 10:30:50

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=8637.msg103158#msg103158
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=6614.msg68662#msg68662

Title: Why are the primary colours different for light and dyes?
Post by: lyner on 02/10/2007 12:54:06

It's because artists and Scientists came from different directions and both of them grabbed the same term for two different things.