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Figure 3.6: Additive color mixing of equal intensities of red, green <strong>and</strong><br />

blue primaries. Adapted from [GM97].<br />

viewer’s eye. Similarly, digital displays c<strong>on</strong>tain milli<strong>on</strong>s of tiny red, green <strong>and</strong> blue<br />

dots, or pixels, <strong>on</strong> a screen, each of which can be displayed with varying intensities.<br />

The eye fuses the colored dots <strong>and</strong> thus perceives an entire gamut of colors.<br />

Figure 3.7: Left: Georges Seurat, La Gr<strong>and</strong>e Jatte. Pointillism as the<br />

precursor to additive color mixing in digital displays. Middle: detail<br />

showing the visual texture resulting from the layering of small brush<br />

strokes of paint. Right: pictomicrograph of the paint surface showing<br />

the layering of brush marks of color. From a distance, these marks mix<br />

optically to form a unique color area [Seu86].<br />

3.1.2 Light Spectra<br />

Previously, it has been show that daylight is a composite light. In fact, the distri-<br />

buti<strong>on</strong> of sunlight’s energy over the electromagnetic spectrum c<strong>on</strong>sists of relatively<br />

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