{"id":41838,"date":"2021-07-04T05:30:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T05:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=41838"},"modified":"2021-07-04T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T05:30:24","slug":"color-the-rgb-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/color-the-rgb-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Color: the rgb system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about color: the tutor mentions some ideas about rgb.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is my understanding of rgb color:<\/p>\n<p>rgb is additive, meaning that to get white, you add 100% red + 100% green + 100% blue. You can&#8217;t accomplish this with pigments, because they reflect light rather than contributing it. rgb assumes the r, g, and b portions are separate contributions of light to an observation point.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, 100% means 255, so white can be written as rgb(255,255,255).\nInteresting colors emerge when you zero out one of the components. For instance,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(0,255,255)\">rgb(0,255,255): no red<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,255)\">rgb(255,0,255): no green<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(255,255,0);background-color:gray\">rgb(255,255,0): no blue<\/span><\/li><\/ol>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nixsensor.com\/blog\/what-is-rgb-color\/\">nixsensor.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/primary-colors.htm\">science.howstuffworks.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about color: the tutor mentions some ideas about rgb. The following is my understanding of rgb color: rgb is additive, meaning that to get white, you add 100% red + 100% green + 100% blue. You can&#8217;t accomplish this &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/color-the-rgb-system\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Color: the rgb system<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41838"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41843,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41838\/revisions\/41843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}