RGB color model
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The RGB color model is an additive color model in which the red, green, and blue primary colors of light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. The name of the model
Full color image along with its R, G, and B components
The first permanent color photograph, taken by Thomas Sutton in 1861 using James Clerk Maxwell's proposed method of three filters, specifically red, green, and violet-blue
A photograph of Mohammed Alim Khan (1880–1944), Emir of Bukhara, taken in 1911 by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky using three exposures with blue, green, and red filters
RGB phosphor dots in a CRT monitor
Color theory
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Color theory, or more specifically traditional color theory, is a historical body of knowledge describing the behavior of colors — namely in color mixing, color contrast effects, color harmony, color
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's color wheel from his 1810 Theory of Colours
Page from 1826 A New Practical Treatise on the Three Primitive Colours Assumed as a Perfect System of Rudimentary Information by Charles Hayter
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Göttingen, 1775, plate III.
Ignaz Schiffermüller, Versuch eines Farbensystems (Vienna, 1772), plate I.