like if you wanted to mix paint to get a color from a computer would you do the opposite of what the RGB value is? I’m confused

like if I wanted to take the RBG code R:99, G: 66, B, 33 wouldn’t it look more lightful than if I mixed paint into 1 part blue, 2 part green, 3 part red? how would you paint a color code?

  • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Paints absorb light really Red paint should be -#00FFFF so under white light the light becomes FFFFFF-00FFFF -> FF0000

    Of course under blue light (0000FF) it becomes 000000

    If you mix paints you end up with -FFFFFF which turns any light into 000000.

    Basically consider paint a transformation when it comes to light rather than a source