What are the primary colors of light and how are they different from the primary colors of pigment?

Answer 1

The primary colors of pigment are magenta, cyan, and yellow. Light is red, blue and green. You see, when you mix all of the colors of light you get white light, right? If you mix all of the colors of pigment you get a dark uglier color. I would like to add one more thing. I'm studying light and pigment in my class. Have you ever shone light into a prism and watched the colored light come back out? You can see the colors because the glass prism is denser than the air. The matter the light goes through is called the medium and if the light goes from a medium that is not very dense to one that is, the light diffracts. All of the colors of light diffract at a different angle. This is why we can see the colors. Also the reason we see color is because the wight light shines on the object and the object absorbs all of the colors except for the color the eye sees. Say you look at the grass and it appears green. The grass absorbs red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo, and purple. The grass reflects green light.