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(Red, Green, Blue).
- Development: Developed through collaborative efforts in color perception and electronic display technologies, with significant contributions from laboratories such as Bell Labs, IBM, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
- Colors/Units of Measure: Red, Green, Blue (additive primaries).
- Hardware-Based: Yes, commonly used in electronic displays such as monitors, screens, and digital projectors.
- Year of Release: Evolved over time; significant developments in the mid-20th century with the advent of electronic displays.
- Founding Institution: Bell Labs, IBM, and MIT.
- Color Theory: Additive color theory, where colors are created by adding different intensities of red, green, and blue light.
- Color Model: Additive color model.
- Total Number of Possible Color Combinations: 16,777,216 (256 levels for each of the three colors).
- Primary Colors: Red, Green, Blue.
- Secondary Colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow.
- Tertiary Colors: Various combinations of the primary and secondary colors.