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4e: Describe how colour can be represented as a mixture of red, green, and blue, with a sequence of bits representing each colour's intensity
4e: Describe how colour can be represented as a mixture of red, green, and blue, with a sequence of bits representing each colour's intensity
| Keyword | Definition |
|---|---|
| black | a lack of colour which is made up of an absence of any visible light |
| blue | a colour (with the shortest wavelength and highest frequency) of light visible to humans |
| colour | a property of visible light which is interpreted by the human brain as different shades/hues of the rainbow |
| colour intensity | a measure of the brightness or dullness of a colour |
| green | a colour (with wavelength and frequency in the middle) of light visible to humans |
| red | a colour (with the longest wavelength and lowest frequency) of light visible to humans |
| visible spectrum | the range of colours that a human eye can detect (all the colours of the rainbow) |
| white | a colourless light that is made up of an equal intensity combination of visible light at all wavelengths within the visible spectrum |
