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Since colour mixture is a somewhat ambiguous term it is necessary at the outset of this chapter to make clear the sense in which the term is being used here. In colour technology a distinction is made between additive and subtractive mixture. By additive mixture is meant the adding together of beams of light from different parts of the spectrum or of different spectral compositions. Sometimes this addition is achieved by means of quite complex optical instruments known as additive colorimeters. Sometimes it is achieved by means of projectors which throw beams of coloured light on to the same area of a screen or a stage. It occurs when we look at a colour television picture in which the light from the minute red, green and blue phosphor dots of which the picture is composed merge in the eye because the dot pattern is too fine to be resolved by the mosaic of retinal receptors.
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Wright, W.D. (1972). Colour Mixture. In: Jameson, D., Hurvich, L.M. (eds) Visual Psychophysics. Handbook of Sensory Physiology, vol 7 / 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88658-4_16
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