Primary Colors

[Derek]

Simple question - What are the 3 primary colors?

[Lorne]

Depends. There are additive, subtractive, and biological answers to that (and the latter depends on the organism you're talking about, technically).

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_colors
or: http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/colour/primary.html

[Imagine Programming]

i always use Red, Green and blue as primary... as i have been learned (RGB)

[Desmond]

I still think of mixing finger paints in preschool ... Red, Blue, Yellow.

[Derek]

So, in fact ... not a simple question!

[RobertB]

kuler.adobe.com LOL

[yosik]

When you are talking about Light, RGB are the Primary colors (R+G+B = White. no R + no G + no B = Black).
In the printing business, primary colors are CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black). All of them give you Black...well, actually, a "dirty" black. None of them is white (white paper before printing).
A full color screen image is, usually 24 bits, or 8 bits Red, 8 bits Green, 8 bits Blue.
8 bits means 2 to the power of 8 (2X2X2X2X2X2X2X2 = 256). That is the basis of 0 to 255 values for each of these colors. So 24 bits means a Total number of colors of 256X256X256 = 2**8 X 2**8 X 2**8 = 2**24 = 16,777,216.

Higher end images can use 16 bits or more (16 bits channels in Photoshop...), meaning 65,536 values for each color (RGB) instead of 256.

Hope that helps

Yossi

[Lorne]

See these blue texty things?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_colors
http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/colour/primary.html

They're called links. Amazing things. Clicking on them leads to pages with information on them. Sometimes there are even detailed answers to questions and stuff!

[Imagine Programming]

Never heard of them, are those 'links' a new developed technology? would be nice for my webscripts, so that people don't have to type in the complete url anymore lol! xD

See these blue texty things?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_colors
http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/colour/primary.html

They're called links. Amazing things. Clicking on them leads to pages with information on them. Sometimes there are even detailed answers to questions and stuff!

[ShadowUK]

Never heard of them, are those 'links' a new developed technology? would be nice for my webscripts, so that people don't have to type in the complete url anymore lol! xD

This indeed is, a revolutionary technology. I must thank the one called Lorne.

[Imagine Programming]

This indeed is, a revolutionary technology. I must thank the one called Lorne.

Agreed, he is..... the chosen one!

[reteset]

Simple question - What are the 3 primary colors?

it is a discussion on the world since stone age
it should be RGB as i knew from comodore 64

[RizlaUK]

See these blue texty things?

lmao, Lorne, they recon Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the HIGHEST form of intelligence

[rhosk]

lmao, Lorne, they recon Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the HIGHEST form of intelligence

Yeah, but the question is: Who is "they"?

[Derek]

Yeah, but the question is: Who is "they"?

You've never heard of The They Group ?