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In article <871@ritcv.UUCP>, cep4478@ritcv.UUCP (Christopher E. Piggott) writes:

> Question: why are R.G.B. monitors Red, GREEN, blue, when GREEN is not one of
> the primary colors (being a combination of blue and yellow)?  Why shouldn't
> it be red, YELLOW, blue?

	Actually, you are thinking about pigmented primary colour systems, not
optical additive primary colour systems.  The RGB primaries represent the maximum
span (and define a "triangle" on the CIE colour chart, a 2-d representation of
colour space) of reproducible colours.  Colours outside the "span" cannot be
reproduced.

	Check out any decent book on physical psychology, Cornsweet's classic
text "Visual Perception", or the half-zillion books published on this subject
in the 50's w.r.t. colour TV.

York David Anthony
DataSpan, Inc