Most of us are familiar with the concept that we can mix red, green, and blue light to achieve a variety of colors as illustrated in Figure 1. Based on this, we all happily accept the idea that each ...

With a palette of around 17 million colors at his fingertips, today’s computer artists have virtually no limits to their basic materials. It’s difficult to imagine, then, how painters of previous ...

Since the first color TV signals were broadcast, over 50 years ago, there have been shockingly few advancements. Thanks to limited bandwidth, legacy standards and the limitations of ancient CRT ...

The color wheel was first developed by English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, who discovered that white light (what we perceive as colorless daylight) is composed of a spectrum of ...