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Subject: How do you make brown from red, green, and blue light?

Date: Thu Aug 30 20:10:45 2001
Posted by Matt
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That is, in the sense that red + green gives yellow (or what we perceive to be 
yellow) and green + blue gives cyan, how do you make the color we perceive 
as "brown" out of red, green, and blue light? I know that the word "brown" 
covers a wide range of colors, but I'm talking specifically about the color 
produced by the "Brown" crayon in a Crayola set. Is there a way to mimic that 
color simply by combining (in various amounts) red, green, and blue photons? 
And if so (and it must be so, right?), what are those various amounts?


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