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    Additive color involves combining colored lights to produce other colors, with the three primary additive colors of red, green, and blue combining to produce white light. Subtractive color involves subtracting colors from white light to produce other colors, with the three primary subtractive colors of cyan, magenta, and yellow combining to produce darkness. Additive color is used for stage lighting, color television, and color printing while subtractive color is used widely for paint pigments, color photographs, and color printing.

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    Additive color involves combining colored lights to produce other colors, with the three primary additive colors of red, green, and blue combining to produce white light. Subtractive color involves subtracting colors from white light to produce other colors, with the three primary subtractive colors of cyan, magenta, and yellow combining to produce darkness. Additive color is used for stage lighting, color television, and color printing while subtractive color is used widely for paint pigments, color photographs, and color printing.

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    Additive color involves combining colored lights to produce other colors, with the three primary additive colors of red, green, and blue combining to produce white light. Subtractive color involves subtracting colors from white light to produce other colors, with the three primary subtractive colors of cyan, magenta, and yellow combining to produce darkness. Additive color is used for stage lighting, color television, and color printing while subtractive color is used widely for paint pigments, color photographs, and color printing.

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    14. Differentiate between additive colour and subtractive colour.

    Additive colour Subtractive colour


    1. If coloured lights are added
    together then they will produce
    other colours
    If colours are subtracted from white light
    then other colours will be produced.
    2. When the three primary additive
    colours are combined in equal
    proportions they add to produce
    white light
    When the three primary subtractive colours
    are combined in equal propotions they
    subtract components of white light to
    produce darkness.
    3. Eg!
    "ed # $reen % &ellow
    $reen # 'lue % cyan
    "ed # blue % (agenta
    "ed # $reen # 'lue % White
    )yan subtracts "ed *hese
    pairs are
    (agenta subtracts $reen formed as
    yellow subtracts 'lue complementary
    colours
    +. *hey are used for stage lighting,
    colour television and in colour
    printing
    *hey are widely used for paint pigments,
    colour photographs and colour printing.
    15. What is a visual task?
    -isual tasks are the tasks .work/ that are carried out with the help of vision.
    16. What are the factors affecting visual tasks?
    1. 0i1e, 2. 2uminance, 3. )ontrast, +. $lare

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