aangus opened this issue on Apr 02, 2006 ยท 10 posts
Onslow posted Sun, 02 April 2006 at 6:19 AM
Well I have good news for you. Due to a discovery by one of your fellow countrymen in the 19thC it was found that by shining lights of red green and blue light onto a surface that white could be formed and that the overlapping areas would form Yellow, Magenta, and Cyan. From this discovery stemmed colour photography. The question of why Yellow? I think can only be answered by: It works ! Perhaps a finer study of the gentleman's work will reveal his exact thinking of why he tried these colours, but I know they were not the first colours he tried. The gentlemans name: James Clerk Maxwell
And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies
live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to
sea in a Sieve.
Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html