Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsb!kadie From: kadie@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: sci.misc Subject: Color Message-ID: <162300002@uiucdcsb> Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 12:03:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.162300002 Posted: Wed Dec 2 12:03:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 09:19:57 EST Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #N:uiucdcsb:162300002:000:544 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu!kadie Dec 2 11:03:00 1987 I've got two miscellaneous science questions. 1) On TV's and computers screens, why is it RGB (red, green, blue) instead of RYB (red, yellow, blue) the primary colors? 2) Some light wave length produces the color green. A mixture of the wave lengths of blue and yellow also produces green. Even though these two greens are indistinguishable to our eyes, are there (could there be) instruments that distinguish them? Carl Kadie UUCP: {ihnp4,pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!kadie CSNET: kadie@UIUC.CSNET ARPA: kadie@M.CS.UIUC.EDU (kadie@UIUC.ARPA)