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Why are the primary colours different for light and dyes?
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Why are the primary colours different for light and dyes?
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Quote from: paul.fr on 02/10/2007 05:27:03
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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.
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http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=8637.msg103158#msg103158
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=6614.msg68662#msg68662
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Why are the primary colours different for light and dyes?
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It's because artists and Scientists came from different directions and both of them grabbed the same term for two different things.
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