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[der Mouse]

> I was speaking more of resolution rather than discernible shades.  Of
> course we don't really see yellow on a monitor since it is not
> capable of producing that color.

This depends on whether "see yellow" means "have the perceptual
experience we have agreed to call `yellow'" or "receive a light
spectrum with a single pronounced peak in the range which is generally
perceived as `yellow'".  The former we do; the latter we don't.

> We get fooled by a red-green combo that stimulates the retina the
> same way yellow does (makes reproducing colors easier).

Well...approximately the same way.  Unless you are one of those lucky
women who happens to be a tetrachromat, perhaps.

It's always annoyed me, in an abstract theoretical kind of way, that
there probably are colours the typical (trichromat) human eye can
perceive that cannot be reproduced on (typical) colour film or monitor.
(I say "probably" because I haven't looked up the response curves and
worked it out, but it seems probable to me.)

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