RGB and RYB color

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Overview

The concept of RGB (Red, green, Blue) and RYB (Red Yellow, Blue) is the perspective at which light comes to you. A great analogy is the movie projector, the video projecting out of the projector is in RGB and when it hits the screen it is reflected through the scheme known as RYB. Why is this? Well lets look at how the two schemes work.

RGB & RYB

RYB is the color coding system that we all learned while we were in the beginning years of our schooling. We were taught that Red Yellow and Blue were the primary colors and you can make any other colors out of these three basics. Red + Yellow = Orange, Blue + Yellow = Green and so on.

Since the concept of paint is that color absorb every color but the one that it is reflecting. This means that red absorbs every color but red, blue absorbs every color but blue and yellow absorbs every color but yellow. When you add colors together what you are doing is adding to the amount of colors that the paints will absorb. This color scheme is known as a subtractive color scheme because when you add different colors together what you are actually doing is subtracting the amount of light that the paints can reflect.

RGB is the way we all see light, when light comes from a lamp or the sun, it is all travels in RGB. This scheme is what is known as an additive color scheme because when you add lights together you are only adding the spectrum of light that can reflect back or go straight into the eye.

Conclusion

So in conclusion we can state that light is projected in RBG but RYB is used when we want to manipulate what lights go to our eyes.

Experiment

To prove the theory of RYB you already know how this works, simple take some paints or markers and start mixing them, you know probably already know that Red + Blue = purple, Red + Yellow = orange, and Blue + yellow = Green. Also if you were to scribble red, blue, and yellow all together on a piece of paper you will get a blackish color.
Now to prove the theory of RGB take three flashlights and cover each one with the different primary colors of RGB ( Red, Green, Blue) by ether some kind of foil or marker. When you turn off the lights and shine them on a white surface you will not notice any difference, but when you shine all the flashlights on the same point on the wall you will get white. Cool eh'.!!

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