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  2. Color mixing - Wikipedia

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    There are three types of color mixing models, depending on the relative brightness of the resultant mixture: additive, subtractive, and average. [1] In these models, mixing black and white will yield white, black and gray, respectively. Physical mixing processes, e.g. mixing light beams or oil paints, will follow one or a hybrid of these 3 ...

  3. Gendered associations of pink and blue - Wikipedia

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    Paoletti summarized the evolution of pink and blue associations with girls and boys: "It is clear that pink-blue gender coding was known in the late 1860s but was not dominant until the 1950s in most parts of the United States and not universal until a generation later." [4]

  4. Complementary colors - Wikipedia

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    [10] Out of the opposition of blue and yellow, through a process called "steigerung", or "augmentation" a third color, red, was born. [page needed] Goethe also proposed several sets of complementary colors which "demanded" each other. According to Goethe, "yellow 'demands' violet; orange [demands] blue; purple [demands] green; and vice versa". [11]

  5. Blue - Wikipedia

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    In painting and traditional colour theory, blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments (red, yellow, blue), which can be mixed to form a wide gamut of colours. Red and blue mixed together form violet, blue and yellow together form green. Mixing all three primary colours together produces a dark brown.

  6. Primary color - Wikipedia

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    The identity of a/the set of minimal pigments to mix diverse gamuts has long been the subject of speculation by theorists whose claims have changed over time, for example, Pliny's white, black, one or another red, and "sil", which might have been yellow or blue; Robert Boyle's white, black, red, yellow, and blue; and variations with more or ...

  7. Additive color - Wikipedia

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    The intersection of all three primary colors together yields white. James Clerk Maxwell , with his color top that he used for investigation of color vision and additive color Additive color or additive mixing is a property of a color model that predicts the appearance of colors made by coincident component lights , i.e. the perceived color can ...

  8. List of historical sources for pink and blue as gender ...

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    After the layette has been provided, comes the fitting out of the basket. Usually, the first baby's basket is lined with pink or blue—pink, if a girl is desired, blue for a boy—and is covered with dotted muslin, and decked with flounces, laces, and ribbons. [55] 1908: USA: A Dictionary of Men's Wear ...

  9. Secondary color - Wikipedia

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    Primary colors of the CMY color model: cyan, magenta, and yellow, mixed to form secondary colors red, green, and blue. The RGB color model is an additive mixing model, used to estimate the mixing of colored light, with primary colors red, green, and blue. The secondary colors are yellow, cyan and magenta as demonstrated here: