Absolutely! Being partially colour blind I rely incredibly heavily on
two great pieces of information - Photoshop's colour sampling tool and
my wife... and she used to argue with her mother about colours!!
You could as David says, use any suitable set. Thus cyan magenta and
yellow could have been defined as primary colours. As long as the set
chosen allows all possible visible combinations of colours and no doubt
many that are not visible to the "perfect" human eye.
Howard
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
On Tue, November 11, 2008 02:31, MichaelHughes7A@xxxxxxx wrote:
In a message dated 11/11/2008 05:46:29 GMT Standard Time,
howard.leigh111@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Being pedantic (it's the teacher in me) the complementary colour pairs
are....
Primary - complementary:
red - cyan
blue - yellow
green - magenta
May I ask the pedant for his definition of primary colour please?
Well, any group of colors that form a basis for the space. They've
documented multiple retinal pigments for at least one color in the human
eye, so people definitely don't see things the same all the time.
(I would agree that one can't meaningfully talk about a primary color in
the singular; only a *set* of them.)
