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colorimetry
In colour: The laws of colour mixtureThe three additive primary colours are red, green, and blue; this means that, by additively mixing the colours red, green, and blue in varying amounts, almost all other colours can be produced, and, when the three primaries are added together in equal amounts, white is produced.
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colour vision and perception
In human eye: Colour mixing…spectrum, namely by mixing three primary hues—red, green, and blue.
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television systems
In television: Basic principles of compatible colour: The NTSC system…the scene into its component primary colours. Light can be analyzed in this way by passing it through three coloured filters, typically red, green, and blue. The amounts of light passing through each filter, plus a description of the colour transmission properties of the filters, serve uniquely to characterize the…
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