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Explain the differences between subtractive and additive color?

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Subtractive color is the mixing of paints, dyes, inks, and natural colorants, etc. to create a range of colors; for example red and green pigments, being quite far apart, when mixed result in a dark browinish color depending on the actual pigments used.
Additive color is the mixing of illumination, a good example is the screen you are looking att now. There a yellow color is obtained by illuminating a green and a red sub-pixel.

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