Question

What makes red, green, and blue the primary colors?

Answer 1

Red, green, and blue are only the primary colors for light. They are considered primary because separately they can mix together to make the other colors. Green and blue together make cyan, red and blue make magenta, and green and red make yellow.. . THe primary colors for solid colors are red, yellow, and blue that can mix to make colors like green or orange.

Answer 2

thts because thy can combine to form all other colours including white

Answer 3

BECAUSE ALL COLOR COMBINATIONS CAN BE DERIVED FROM THEM.. . NOTE YOUR COLOR TV

Answer 4

Because all other colors (other than black and white - they're in a category of their own) can be made from them. Hence the term 'primary.'

Answer 5

because you can make all the other colors with the primary colors

Answer 6

because the receoptors in our eyes are most sensitive to light in these wavelengths, and our brain will interpret combinations of these colors as being different in between colors. your computer monitor can display millions of different colors, but if you could see it real close - try a big screen tv - you could see that each pixel is made of little red blue and green dots.. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichromat

Answer 7

Red and yellow make orange

Answer 8

They're not. Green is made from red and yellow.

Answer 9

becoz if u mix these colours in suitable proportion u get all the other colours.

Answer 10

green isnt primary its secondary.. . YELLOW blue and red.. It's because any othe rcolor can be created with a combination of the primaries, where as NOTHING mixes to make yellow red and blue.