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The Psychological Primary Colors or Primary Colors In Psychology or Psychological Color Model or Color model in psychology were used by several people, almost all of them used the colors red, yellow, blue and green as the 4 Primary Colors. To see what utility psychological primary colors are (See utility of these colors) What are the psychological primary colors? These Colors Are A Psychological Model With 4 Primary Colors.


Theories


Ewald Hering

Psychological: red, yellow, green and blue. The origin is in the so-called theory of the color opposition process of Ewald Hering (1834-1918) which included six primary psychological colors grouped into pairs that are opposite: black and white, red and green, yellow and blue.


Quattron

 is the brand name of an
LCD A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers. Liquid crystals do not emit light directly but i ...
color display technology produced by
Sharp Electronics is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products, headquartered in Sakai-ku, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. Since 2016 it has been majority owned by the Taiwan-based Foxconn Group. Sharp employs more than ...
. In addition to the standard
RGB The RGB color model is an additive color model in which the red, green and blue primary colors of light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. The name of the model comes from the initials of the three additiv ...
(Red, Green, and Blue) color
subpixels In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest point in an all points addressable display device. In most digital display devices, pixels are the smal ...
, the technology utilizes a
yellow Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575585 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing. In ...
fourth color subpixel (RGBY) which Sharp claims increases the range of displayable colors, and which may mimic more closely the way the brain processes color information. The screen is a form of
multi-primary color display Multi-primary color (MPC) display is a display that can reproduce a wider gamut color than conventional displays. In addition to the standard RGB (Red Green and Blue) color subpixels, the technology utilizes additional colors, such as yellow, ...
, other forms of which have been developed in parallel to Sharp's version.


Max Lüscher

Máx Lüscher also used the 4 Psychological Primary Colors and he ordered them basic and auxiliary. he used red, yellow, blue and green as basics. and used black, gray, brown, and violet as auxiliary colors.


Utilities of these 4 Psychological Primary Colors


Richard Waller

Four primary colors yellow, red, blue and green are arranged on the sides of a square whose diagonals produce the mixtures. His square is the last "obstacle" on the way to Newton, who had been occupied with optical experiments since 1670 and based the future order of colors on a fundamentally physical way of thinking. At this point, the old view ends, according to which colors arise as modifications of white light through the addition of darkness. However, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe later revived this idea of cloudiness with all vigour. At the time when, at the end of the 17th century, the old order of colors from light to dark or from black to white was disappearing and Isaac Newton was setting up a new system, the Englishman Richard Waller in London was trying to see if the colors could not be in could arrange in a square. He publishes his attempts at order with the intention of providing a "Standard of Colours". We represent his system with four primary colors — yellow (Yellow, Y), red (Red, R), blue (Blue, B), and green (Green, G) — that aren't at the corners, but at the center of each page . The resulting mixtures can then be drawn into the fields of the resulting network. Waller did not determine these middle tones according to his feelings, he rather proceeded according to the weight, i.e. he mixed the respective starting pigments in a weight ratio of 1:1. If Waller's square is broken down into its primary and secondary lines (bottom left and right, respectively), the diagonals reveal themselves as places of synthesis. The mixed colors — orange (Orange, O), yellow-green (Yellowgreen, YG), blue-green (Bluegreen, BG) and violet (Violet, V) — result, physically speaking, from the forces that span the pure colors. Waller published his system around 1686 under the title "Catalogue of Simple and Mixed Colors". His square is the last obstacle on the way to Newton, who had been occupied with optical experiments since 1670 and based the future order of colors on a fundamentally physical way of thinking. At this point, the old view ends, according to which colors arise as modifications of white light through the addition of darkness. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe will later revive this idea of cloudiness with all vigour.) The idea that colors are not modifications of white light, but rather its original components, was gained through experiments with a prism. The Bohemian physicist Marcus Marci was the first to use a glass body of this type in 1648. He allowed sunlight to fall into a dark room with a small opening and then passed the resulting beam through a prism. He saw a sequence of colors that we now call a spectrum: red, white, violet. Marci saw that the alleged modification depended on the angle at which the light was deflected, and he also noted that even then the colored light could not be further broken down. Around the same time (1650) F. M. Grimaldi discovered in Bologna that small openings result in colored light phenomena, which we explain today by the so-called diffraction. The physics of color then really got going, before Newton, with Robert Hooke, who began studying the colors produced when light is refracted on thin sheets of mica or between sheets of glass. In his work Micrographia, Hooke also made bold assumptions about the nature of light. For him there was a ripple motion going on here, and a ripple surface perpendicular to the ray produced white, in his view. If the wave surface was tilted, the ability to color appeared, which becomes effective at the edge of a light beam. Color as the obliquity of a wave surface - only a physicist could think of that, but the representatives of their guild also had clearer ideas, and they will occupy us in a few of the following plates.


NCS System

The aim of the Swedish color researchers was to devise a color system by which anyone with normal color vision would be able to make color determinations without having to rely on color measuring instruments or color samples. In the NCS color system, the six elementary color sensations black, white, yellow, red, blue and green are placed at the six decisive points of a double cone, namely the achromatic colors at the two ends and the four chromatic colors with equal distances in the color wheel. A three-dimensional framework is created, defined by elementary color sensations and in which each color perception finds its place according to its nuance and hue. The system of natural colors, the «Natural Color System NCS», comes from Sweden. It operates with the six primary colors proposed by Leonardo da Vinci (text passage) and Ewald Hering's opponent theory. Concrete starting points for the research work were Tryggve Johansson's system and Sven Hesselgren's color atlas. The company started in 1964 and in the late 1960s Anders Hård and Lars Sivik were able to present their first results. The aim of the Swedish color researchers was to devise a color system by which anyone with normal color vision would be able to make color determinations without having to rely on color measuring instruments or color samples. The NCS system should be able to be used to determine the color of a wall in a room, the color of a deciduous tree at a distance, the color of a painted surface showing simultaneous contrasts, or the color of a spot on a television screen. The sole basis should be the perception of a color and not the comparison of different colors with each other ("color matching"). The system of natural colors has the external form of a double cone, which is designed in such a way that the four psychological basic colors yellow (Y), red (R), blue (B) and green (G) form the basic circle and places with equal distances take from each other. The two vertices of the bicone are white (above) and black (below), with the connection between each of the four primary colors and the two achromatic vertices forming an equilateral triangle. This triangle indicates the nuance of a color. The perceived white (W), black (S) and color components (C) are listed. The color entered on the extreme right is then given by the parameters S=10, W=10 and C=80. (The three numbers add up to 100, of course.) In the NCS color wheel, each quarter of the circle between any two primary colors is divided by a scale that indicates the percentage of each color according to the following scheme: Y40R means yellow with 40% red, and B20G means blue with 20% green. The assignment is based on the principle of similarity. This concept states that each color is similar to at most two of the elementary chromatic colors (besides white and black) where the correspondence can be estimated quantitatively with an accuracy of 5% (without the help of a physical standard). Such estimates should be able to be made even by observers who have little experience in dealing with color. The variables of the NCS system are also defined by similarity. One of them is the hue that comes about as explained above. For example, the color orange should have 30% similarity to red and 70% similarity to yellow, which gives you the coordinates Y30R. The chromaticity (proportion of a chromatic color) C and the proportion of black S come into play as further variables, as shown in the triangle. This means that the same chromatic components contain all colors that lie on the vertical lines — parallel to the black-white axis. Correspondingly, equal proportions of black contain all the colors in the series that run parallel to the line between white and the color under consideration. And all colors that lie on rows parallel to the line between black and the color contain the same amount of white (which does not have to be listed separately because it results from C and S or from the intersection of the corresponding rows). The system of natural colors succeeds in taking over the good sides of the systems of Munsell and Ostwald without having to carry their disadvantages by limiting itself to the describability of a color perception. Its creators demonstrated empirically that any perceived surface color can be described by quantifying its similarity to at most four of the six elementary color sensations. In doing so, they strictly followed a phenomenological approach. Natürlich ist auch das natürliche System der Farben nicht vollkommen, und seine Ausweitung auf Leuchtfarben zum Beispiel wird auch neue Kenntnisse über Sehen und Wahrnehmen mit sich bringen. Die offene Vielfalt der Farben übersteigt jedes geschlossene System, auch wenn es noch so raffiniert und rücksichtsvoll konstruiert ist.


CIE L*A*B* system

Unfortunately, in the famous CIE diagram used by colorimetricians, it is not possible to simply determine color differences as distances in the diagram. Critics of the CIE diagram have always pointed out this disadvantage, manifested by the over-representation of green and the corners of red, violet and blue tones being squeezed together. The CIEL*a*b* system emerges from the CIE color diagram by converting the original three coordinates X, Y and Z into three new parameters L, A and B. The aim of this transformation is a color space that should help to determine color differences numerically. Industrial color applications are not just about measuring colors. What is particularly important is the possibility of being able to precisely determine color differences. The reason for this is simply that when a customer orders a producer to supply a desired object (e.g. a car) in the desired color (e.g. Ice Green), he expects the ordered item to be a color that matches a second (already existing) colour, with a small tolerance, of course. Unfortunately, in the famous CIE diagram used by colorimetricians, it is not possible to simply determine color differences as distances in the diagram. Critics of the CIE diagram have always pointed out this disadvantage, manifested by the over-representation of green and the corners of red, violet and blue tones being squeezed together. Since the 1960s, easily practicable formulas for calculating differences have been proposed in the literature on the subject of color differences, which are then more or less widely used. In 1976, a new metric recommended by the CIE appeared under the abbreviation CIELAB or CIEL*a*b*, which was then used extensively for non-luminous objects, such as textiles, paints and plastic objects. The CIEL*a*b* system seems to cover the mentioned industrial needs. The metric presented at the same time with the abbreviation CIELUV or CIEL*u*v*, on the other hand, helps to capture color differences, for example in flashes, in photography or on the television picture. In order to arrive at the CIEL*a*b* color space, the three colorimetric coordinates (color values) X, Y and Z of the CIE standard color table are converted into three new sizes, which are designated L, a and b. X and Y become a in a not very simple way, Y and Z create b in a similar way, and Y alone provides the way to L (which results in the values entered in the left cube, which are not explained in more detail here). L ("lightness") provides something like a "psychometric lightness" (or "lightness"), that is, this parameter is defined by the appropriate function of a psychophysical quantity (a color value) chosen such that equal scale intervals so reproduce as closely as possible the same differences between colors that are related in lightness. The values of L range from 0 for black (nero) to 100 for white (bianco). The resulting CIEL*a*b* diagram is sometimes called a "psychometric color diagram", where the colors are perpendicular to each other along two directions. The plane spanned by them is itself perpendicular to the achromatic axis. The resulting "uniform color space" is of course based on the four psychological basic colors red (Rosso), green (Verde), blue (Blu) and yellow (Giallo), which Ewald Hering in his opponent theory as first described and which we now know are reported directly to the brain.


Opponent process

The
opponent process The opponent process is a color theory that states that the human visual system interprets information about color by processing signals from photoreceptor cells in an antagonistic manner. The opponent-process theory suggests that there are thre ...
was proposed by
Ewald Hering Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (5 August 1834 – 26 January 1918) was a German physiologist who did much research into color vision, binocular perception and eye movements. He proposed opponent color theory in 1892. Born in Alt-Gersdorf, Ki ...
in which he described the four "simple" or "primary" colors (''einfache'' or ''grundfarben'') as red, green, yellow and blue. To Hering, colors appeared either as these pure colors or as "psychological mixes" of two of them. Furthermore, these colors were organized in "opponent" pairs, red vs. green and yellow vs. blue so that mixing could occur across pairs (e.g., a yellowish green or a yellowish red) but not within a pair (i.e., greenish red cannot be imagined). An achromatic opponent process along black and white is also part of Hering's explanation of color perception. Hering asserted that we did not know why these color relationships were true but knew that they were. Red, green, yellow, and blue (sometimes with white and black) are known as the psychological primaries. Although there is a great deal of evidence for the opponent process in the form of neural mechanisms, there is currently no clear mapping of the psychological primaries to neural substrates. The psychological primaries were applied by
Richard S. Hunter Richard Sewall Hunter (1909–1991) was a pioneering American color scientist and founder oHunter Associates Laboratory(HunterLab). He is best known as the inventor in 1942 of the Hunter L,a,b color measurement system the precursor to the CIELAB col ...
as the primaries for Hunter L,a,b colorspace that led to the creation of
CIELAB The CIELAB color space, also referred to as ''L*a*b*'' , is a color space defined by the International Commission on Illumination (abbreviated CIE) in 1976. (Referring to CIELAB as "Lab" without asterisks should be avoided to prevent confusi ...
. The
Natural Color System The Natural Color System (NCS) is a proprietary perceptual color model. It is based on the color opponency hypothesis of color vision, first proposed by German physiologist Ewald Hering. The current version of the NCS was developed by the S ...
is also directly inspired by the psychological primaries.


Hering's opponent process theory

The concept of certain hues as 'unique' came with the advent of
Opponent process The opponent process is a color theory that states that the human visual system interprets information about color by processing signals from photoreceptor cells in an antagonistic manner. The opponent-process theory suggests that there are thre ...
theory.
Ewald Hering Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (5 August 1834 – 26 January 1918) was a German physiologist who did much research into color vision, binocular perception and eye movements. He proposed opponent color theory in 1892. Born in Alt-Gersdorf, Ki ...
first proposed the idea that red, green, blue, and yellow were unique in 1892. His theory suggests that color vision is based on two opposing axes of color: a red-green axis and a blue-yellow axis. This theory is based strongly on the existence of perceptually
impossible colors Impossible colors are colors that do not appear in ordinary visual functioning. Different color theories suggest different hypothetical colors that humans are incapable of perceiving for one reason or another, and fictional colors are rou ...
or color hue mixtures that have no meaning such as redgreen or yellowblue. These colors are perceptually impossible and suggest an opponent relationship between red and green, and blue and yellow. While this theory was initially considered contradictory to Young and Helmholtz’s trichromatic theory, the discovery of color-opponent cells in the retina and
lateral geniculate nucleus In neuroanatomy, the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN; also called the lateral geniculate body or lateral geniculate complex) is a structure in the thalamus and a key component of the mammalian visual pathway. It is a small, ovoid, ventral proj ...
(LGN) reconciled the two theories. It became widely accepted that the three cone types were recombined into three cone contrast pathways, two encoding color, and one encoding luminance, thereby reducing the redundancy of correlated cone signals. The axes proposed for these recombinations are commonly taken to be L+M, S-(L+M), and L-M. and that all other hues are perceived as mixtures of these four hues.


Unique hues

The colors that define the extremes for each opponent channel are called
unique hues Unique hue is a term used in certain theories of color vision, which implies that human perception distinguishes between "unique" (psychologically primary) and composite (mixed) hues. A unique hue is defined as a color which an observer perceives ...
, as opposed to composite (mixed) hues.
Ewald Hering Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (5 August 1834 – 26 January 1918) was a German physiologist who did much research into color vision, binocular perception and eye movements. He proposed opponent color theory in 1892. Born in Alt-Gersdorf, Ki ...
first defined the unique hues as red, green, blue, and yellow, and based them on the concept that these colors could not be simultaneously perceived. For example, a color cannot appear both red and green.Hering E, 1964. ''Outlines of a Theory of the Light Sense''. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. These definitions have been experimentally refined and are represented today by average
hue In color theory, hue is one of the main properties (called color appearance parameters) of a color, defined technically in the CIECAM02 model as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that ...
angles of 353° (carmine-red), 128° (cobalt green), 228° (cobalt blue), 58° (yellow). Unique hues can differ between individuals and are often used in psychophysical research to measure variations in color perception due to color-vision deficiencies or color adaptation. While there is considerable inter-subject variability when defining unique hues experimentally, an individual's unique hues are very consistent, to within a few nanometers.


what are the 4 pure colors

According to the dominant Hering opponent color framework, the hues red, green, blue, and yellow are distinctive and fundamental to all hue perception, in part due to the fact that they admit of pure or unique variants and all other hues (such as orange) appear as mixtures of them.


Models


Old Traditional Model with Four Primary Colors (RYBG)

the ancient painters used red, yellow, blue and green as psychological primary colors. it was RYBG model since Leonardo da Vinci removed the green color now it is considered RYB model.


New model in light technology (RGBY)

technology brought out a new yellow Subpixel to give more color (RGBY) instead of RGB.


How Many Psychological Primary Colors Are 4 Or 6?

Psychologist Angela Wright states that there are 4 primary psychological colors which are red, yellow, green and blue. Ewald Hering Affirms that there are 6 Primary Psychological Colors Grouping them In Pairs White-Black, Red-Green, Blue-Yellow.


Wheel Of The Four Primary Psychological Colors

The 4 Primary Color Wheel Is A Color Wheel With Four Primary Colors. This is not a color mixing wheel, but they can combine.


Primary colors

There are 4 psychological primary colors, which are
red Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a seconda ...
,
yellow Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575585 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing. In ...
,
blue Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when ...
and
green Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 Nanometre, nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by ...
.


Secondary colours

There are 4 secondary colors, which are
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,
magenta Magenta () is a color that is variously defined as pinkish- purplish- red, reddish-purplish-pink or mauvish- crimson. On color wheels of the RGB (additive) and CMY (subtractive) color models, it is located exactly midway between red and bl ...
/
purple Purple is any of a variety of colors with hue between red and blue. In the RGB color model used in computer and television screens, purples are produced by mixing red and blue light. In the RYB color model historically used by painters, ...
,
cyan Cyan () is the color between green and blue on the visible spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a predominant wavelength between 490 and 520 nm, between the wavelengths of green and blue. In the subtractive color system, or CMYK col ...
/
blue-green Blue-green is the color that is between green and blue. It belongs to the cyan family of colors. Variations Cyan (aqua) Cyan, also called aqua, is the blue-green color that is between blue and green on a modern RGB color wheel. The ...
and
yellow-green Chartreuse (, , ), also known as yellow-green, is a color between yellow and green. It was named because of its resemblance to the green color of a French liqueur called ''green chartreuse'', introduced in 1764. Similarly, ''chartreuse yellow'' ...
.


Tertiary colors

There are 8 tertiary colors, which are warm red (
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), warm yellow (
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), cool yellow, warm green, cool green (cyan-green/
spring green Spring green is a color that was traditionally considered to be on the yellow side of green, but in modern computer systems based on the RGB color model is halfway between cyan and green on the color wheel. The modern spring green, when plot ...
), cool blue (
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/cyan-blue), warm blue (
violet Violet may refer to: Common meanings * Violet (color), a spectral color with wavelengths shorter than blue * One of a list of plants known as violet, particularly: ** ''Viola'' (plant), a genus of flowering plants Places United States * Vio ...
) and cool red (
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).


Mixing Primary Colors With Other Primary Colors

There are 4 different mixes. * Red + Blue = Magenta/purple. * Yellow + Green = Yellow-Green. * Red + Yellow = Orange. * Green + Blue = Cyan/blue-green. There are two mixtures of colors that are not found on the wheel of the four primary colors, which are, red + green, and blue + yellow. Since green is the complementary of red, and blue is the complementary of yellow, mixing red + green =
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(dark yellow), and blue + yellow = greyish green. Complementary colors cancel each other, mixing them will result in a dull and dirty color.


Mixing Primary Colors With Secondary Colors

There are 8 Different Mixes. * Red + Orange = Warm Red. * Red + Magenta/Purple = Cool Red. * Yellow + Orange = Warm Yellow. * Yellow + Yellow-Green = Cool Yellow. * Green + Yellow-Green = Warm Green. * Green + Cyan/Blue-Green = Cool Green. * Blue + Cyan/Blue-Green = Cool Blue. * Blue + Magenta/Purple = Warm Blue.


Complementary (Opposite) Colors

Complementary colors are those that are seen opposite each other on the color wheel, forming a line. They are 8 Different Pairs. * Red is the complementary of green. * Blue is the complementary of yellow. * Orange is the complementary of cyan/blue-green. * Magenta/purple is the complementary of yellow-green. * Warm yellow is the complementary of cool blue. * Warm blue is the complementary of cool yellow. * Warm red is the complementary of cool green. * Warm green is the complementary of cool red.


Representation of the four primary colors in the four elements

Sometimes they use ocher instead of yellow. Earth, Fire, Water, and Sky. In this way, the first categorization of colors was born, beyond black and white, although this category would be far from being the definitive one. Let's see what happened a few centuries later. White, as an absolute color, green for water, blue for sky, red for fire, yellow for earth and black for darkness. There are other occasions that are Earth (Yellow), Fire (Red), Water (Green) and Air (Blue) replacing the sky that is also used blue.


History


Philosophy

Philosophical writing from ancient Greece has described notions of primary colors but they can be difficult to interpret in terms of modern color science.
Theophrastus Theophrastus (; grc-gre, Θεόφραστος ; c. 371c. 287 BC), a Greek philosopher and the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He was a native of Eresos in Lesbos.Gavin Hardy and Laurence Totelin, ''Ancient Botany'', Routle ...
(ca. 371–287 BCE) described Democritus’ position that the primary colors were white, black, red, and green. In
Classical Greece Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece,The "Classical Age" is "the modern designation of the period from about 500 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C." (Thomas R. Martin ...
,
Empedocles Empedocles (; grc-gre, Ἐμπεδοκλῆς; , 444–443 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for originating the cosmogonic theory of the ...
identified white, black, red, and, (depending on the interpretation) either yellow or green as primary colors.
Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical Greece, Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatet ...
described a notion in which white and black could be mixed in different ratios to yield chromatic colors; this idea had considerable influence in Western thinking about color.
François d'Aguilon François d'Aguilon (also d'Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius) (4 January 1567 – 20 March 1617) was a Jesuit, mathematician, physicist, and architect from the Spanish Netherlands. D'Aguilon was born in Brussels; his father was a s ...
's notion of the five primary colors (white, yellow, red, blue, black) was influenced by Aristotle's idea of the chromatic colors being made of black and white.The 20th century philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian- British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He is cons ...
explored color-related ideas using red, green, blue, and yellow as primary colors.


References


External links

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