Color in the eye

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Date: Mon Apr 11 2005 - 21:49:51 PDT

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From: Cbdirtball@aol.com
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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:49:51 EDT
Subject: Color in the eye

My colleague and I had a question about light mixing....for example we all
learn that red added to blue produces magenta. The question is:

    is it constructive/destructive interference that creates the new color?
    is it the human perception of the two individual waves together that
produces the magenta?
    is it solely a perception issue?

Is the magenta a new single wave, so to speak or do the two waves excite the
rods and cones in a way that we perceive magenta?

Thanks,
Charlie Bissell
Craig Childress
Hillsdale High School
San Mateo, California

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