![]() Indigo paint is made by combining pigments that reflect red and blue, and so trigger the red and blue sensors in your eyes, and that's what makes it a secondary colour. You see it because it triggers red and blue sensors in your eyes. TL DR TL DR: Indigo is already there in the rainbow, so it's not a secondary or tertiary colour. Combinations of different colour paints absorb more colours, and so colour is subtracted. Paint absorbs all colours except the ones it reflects (eg, green paint reflects green but absorbs all other colours). It would not be a very good nemonic if it contained all infinity colors. Combinations of different colour lights mean you see more light: the light adds up. ROYGBIV is simply a nemonic (memory aid) to remember the order of perceived colors. Your eyes can only detect red, green and blue, and the other colours are visible to you as combinations of these three (eg, red + green = yellow). TL DR: The colours of light are all there already. Combining that with green paint, which absorbs red and blue, means that you end up absorbing all colours, leaving you with a dark, murky, "tertiary" colour. You can only have purple (a secondary colour) paint by having some substance that reflects both red (a primary colour) and blue (another primary colour) and absorbs green. So all the colours of the rainbow can be there because, well, they're just there. In short, adding pigments together subtracts light, because pigments of more colours amounts to more absorption of certain colours. As a result, you see a dark, brownish colour rather than the yellow you get when combining different colours of light. Similarly, the green paint reflects some green, but the red paint absorbs it. Now, if you combine red and green paint, the red paint reflects some red light, but the green paint absorbs it. Similarly, yellow paint reflects yellow and absorbs the other colours. The other colours (orange onwards) are absorbed. In daylight (which is white, for all intents and purposes), red paint looks red because it reflects only the red component of the light. Now, the secondary and tertiary colours you learn about at school are formed by combining paints or other pigments. ![]() In short, combine different colours of light, and they add together. So in terms of light, yellow is a secondary colour rather than a primary colour.įinally add red, green and blue light together, or combine all the colours of the rainbow, and you see white. Similarly, shine a red patch of light on top of a green patch, and the red and green sensors in your eyes are both stimulated, and again, you see yellow. ![]() It is easy to remember the acronym roy g. Look at yellow, and the red and green sensors in your eyes are both stimulated, meaning that red + green = yellow. Green is the fourth color from the bottom and the top of a rainbow. The other colours come about by adding together responses to more than one colour. Your eyes respond only to red, green and blue. Different colours correspond to different frequencies of light. Rainbows are made up of light, which can have all the colours you're talking about. Because colour works in two ways, and you're getting them mixed up.
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