Re: [Phys-l] experiments with dyes (was: happy equinox)

[Michael Porter <listmoe@gmail.com>]

On Mar 24, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Marty Weiss wrote:
> Renoir ... must have known
> a lot about color mixing and while he probably did not *think* about
> primary colors, like an accomplished pianist does not *think* about
> *how* to hit the chords on the written score, and race car drivers do
> not have to *think& about the gears in their trtansmission, and the
> like, he had to know what to mix to give him the shades he needed when
> he went outside.

No argument from me on that -- the suggestion that I took issue with  
was that Renoir et al were claiming that red, yellow, and blue  
specifically were the three primary colours.

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Michael Porter
Colonel By Secondary School
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada