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The History of the Color Wheel
colourlovers.com — "The first color wheel has been attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, who in 1706 arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk. As the disk spins, the colors blur together so rapidly that the human eye sees white." An in-depth history of color wheels and how we came to use them.
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- v666, on 05/09/2008, -1/+5interesting and informative, dugg
- Nivardus, on 05/09/2008, -3/+1Fantastic commentary, Einstein.
- ElbertF, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1You're not supposed to say that out loud.
- SpeshulEd, on 05/09/2008, -1/+7I realize white light contains all other colors in the light spectrum, but wouldn't spinning a color wheel rapidly just look brown?
- skimmas, on 05/09/2008, -1/+10no... if you mix paint with magenta yellow and cyan you'll get brown... but when you're looking at a colour wheel you're mixing the light emited from each paint not the paint itself. google for adictive and subtractive colour for more info. :)
- spuddly, on 05/09/2008, -0/+0actually it looks more like grey
- StubBuddy, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Newton was ahead of his time
- marjo9, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1he also brought Zaibach into a golden era
- Tymyyy, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1interesant
- bamafun, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1This site is quickly becoming a favorite of mine - great resources for all!
- crazyjake, on 05/09/2008, -2/+1WIZARDRY!!! we must ban such things from our schools and public areas!!
/sarcasm - reeljerc, on 05/09/2008, -1/+0cool
- CaptainChad, on 05/09/2008, -2/+2Video or it didn't happen!
- pkaocdigg, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2ye, the single reason why i clicked this link was for a video of it
Try this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY8kWofj7Ng
- pkaocdigg, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2ye, the single reason why i clicked this link was for a video of it
- aenima987, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2are the colors on the older ones faded?
i think thats why they look wrong (purple looks like pink) - petewhite, on 05/09/2008, -3/+1colour wheel - the title should be
- fuzzynyanko, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1I got confused for a while since displays do red, green, and blue while paints were red, yellow, and blue (sometimes known as Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black). At least later I found out that there's a difference between absorbed light and light from a light source like a CRT or a liquid crystal.
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