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eikenberryyesterday at 10:15 PM1 replyview on HN

It should probably alternate between blue/notblue... green/notgreen. I hit the same wall. Second question asked if blue/green when it was neither... and I really mean neither. I don't see cyan as a shade of blue or green, rather much like I don't see green as a shade of blue or yellow.


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arcfouryesterday at 11:17 PM

Huh. I consider cyan to be blue, but it turns out it's made by mixing equal parts of blue and green light on an RGB display.

I guess that makes sense thinking about it now since it's not a deep blue, and there's obviously no red component, but I never thought of it as being defined as equal parts blue and green.

(Turquoise I would consider to be blue-green/both).

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