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toolslivetoday at 5:37 PM3 repliesview on HN

Just going to sound really pedantic here, but RGB does not capture the entire colour space. In fact, it only captures about 35% of the colours the human eye can perceive.

https://www.oceanopticsbook.info/view/photometry-and-visibil...


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wtallistoday at 5:55 PM

You seem to be conflating "RGB" with one particular RGB color space: sRGB. That's a common enough conflation to make, but not appropriate when you're trying to be pedantic.

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pikertoday at 5:54 PM

Okay, but that was a really useful metaphor if incomplete in a lot of ways. It made me say “oh”.

esafaktoday at 6:34 PM

This is solved through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_color#Imaginary_primar... that sit outside the visible spectrum.