Why does yellow and blue make green? I mean, I can easily see

>>8522776
I've had this thought too. Pretty interesting.

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Its subtraction just like red and yellow picatature related

>>8522776
Your eyes have Red, Blue, and Green cones. So it's easy for your brain to imagine Purple as a combination because it IS a combination. It's a bit harder for your brain to imagine Orange as a combination but it's still possible because it's still a combination of Green cones and Red cones. Imagining Green as a combination is impossible because according to our eyes (and brain) it just IS.

It's just because there aren't enough colors. If we put more colors between blue and green and yellow and green then it would be clearer what's going on

>>8522817
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It has to do with how we perceive color moreso than anything else.

If I remember anything from my bio class, we have Red Blue Green eye shit, and thus red blue easy np, purple is combo like you said, yellow is a green + red (so is orange) and we also see green.

I think it's just because something had to be green (if that makes sense)

>>8522776
> Why does yellow and blue make green
It doesn't, it makes white. Red+green = yellow, yellow+blue = red+green+blue = white.

But if you filter white light through yellow and cyan filters you get green. Yellow = red+green (rejecting blue), cyan = blue+green (rejecting red), filtering white through both rejects blue and red leaving just green.

Anyone saying that yellow and blue makes green is probably a kindergarten teacher that either doesn't understand the difference between blue and cyan or doesn't think the kids will understand it.

>>8524219
Or, you know, they're speaking in the context of mixing pigments/inks. Something that people do all the time with paint, printing, and other forms of art.