HOW WE SEE COLOR

Do you remember learning about primary colors? You probably learned that they are red, yellow and blue. That’s because, simply put, when we paint we create color by mixing various amounts of red, yellow and blue, to get the colors that we want. For example: we mix red and yellow, and get orange. If we add a little more yellow, then we get a yellow orange. But, what actually gives an object (or paint) its color?

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