How is mixing pigments different from mixing light?
In contrast, when you mix only red and blue light, there isn’t any yellow in it, so the resulting light appears purple (the complement of yellow). Likewise, if you mix red and yellow light it appears orange (the complement of blue). If you mix all three colors of light together (in equal amounts), the resulting light appears white because it contains all of the “colors” of the spectrum. This explanation is sound, although greatly simplified.
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