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Visualisations in the device Special information about bitmap graphics
7.4 Special information about bitmap graphics
Additive colour mixing ..................................................................................................................64
What graphics are suitable for which PDM and what steps must be carried out?.......................65
Colour palettes .............................................................................................................................65
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Here the interested reader finds more details about bitmap graphics.
7.4.1 Additive colour mixing
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Monitors and many printers make mixed colours from the 3 primary colours red, green and blue.
Photo: RGB raster of a monitor, considerably enlarged
Mixed colours are made by adding the colours in the required mix ratio. This method is therefore
called additive colour mixing.
Figure: additive colour mixing
Table: examples of colour mixtures
100 % red + 100 % green = 100 % yellow
100 % green + 100 % blue = 100 % cyan
100 % blue + 100 % red = 100 % magenta