In lighting technology, additive color mixing refers to the mixing of colored light by adding spectral ranges. The primary colors of additive color mixing are the complementary colors red, green and blue. The uniform mixing of the three primary colors generates white light.
Thus, the additive color mixing of red, green and blue results in the following secondary colors:
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In additive color mixing, the three primary colors when evenly combined produce the tertiary color white, which appears the brightest.
Additive and subtractive color mixing differ in that in the variant described above, color is added or colors are combined, whereas with subtractive color mixing they are subtracted, meaning removed and/or absorbed, e.g. with use of filters.
