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How do computers make any color using red/green/blue, when paints make every clor using red/yellow/blue?o (wirebase.org)
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Im always confused by RGB. I learned that if you want orange, you mix red and yellow. If you want green, you mix blue and yellow, if you want purple, you mix red and blue.

How is it that computers need green and not yellow?

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

Just like those districts I've never been to!