6th August 2003, 8:26 PM
Um, this isn't paint. IT's a moniter. A moniter is light, not paint. Paint subtracts for reasons in the laws of physics. The reason paint is the opposite way after all is only because it's a substance that removes bandwidths OF light. Light is still the primary thing. Paint takes away light and what's left over is what is seen, which is why the three primary colors are magenta, yellow, and cyan (red blue and yellow to children) when painting, while in the case of light, additive, because light IS light (:D), it's the REAL primary colors of red green and blue. Moniters use addition because they deal with light. The whole debate is over an image on a moniter. Thus, those are the terms we shall use.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)