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At
this exhibit, the visitor looks into a set of partially
silvered mirrors which combine three color-separated
black and white transparencies into one picture. Each
transparency was photographed through a red, green,
or blue filter. By placing colored (red, green, or blue)
filters in front of the three light boxes, the original
photo can be recreated in full color. By switching the
filters around, all sorts of strangely colored renditions
of the original scene can be observed. It turns out
that one two-color combination produces fairly good
overall color for the image. The intensity of the light
in each light box can be controlled from the observer's
view point. This exhibit, which we include in the Building
Blocks section, illustrates how full color pictures
can be composed using only red, green and blue light
sources combined. Red, green, and blue are the primary
additive colors.
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