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MonitorMaybe you've sat very close to the TV. You may have noticed the TV had tiny bright red, green, and blue rectangles, like the ones you saw magnified on your computer monitor. Together, this trio is known as a pixel (short for picture element). By controlling the brightness of these red, green, and blue spots, one can display hundreds to thousands of colors in a single pixel.

Mix your own colors

But what are the rules for this type of color mixing? Play around with the controls below to change background color of this page.

  • What happens when you turn off one of these colors and leave the other two on?
  • How do you make yellow or orange?
  • How to you make pastels? Dark colors?
  • How do you make black, white, and shades of grey?
Do you see any trends or patterns that you could summarize in the text box below? If you want, you can to see what colors other visitors have created; if you want to contribute a color, type your first name and a name for your color, then hit click the Save Color button.

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@colorname@    @redList@    @greenList@    @blueList@    @name@    %DATE%

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