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Who created the color wheel?

(Left) Additive and (right) subtractive methods of colour combination

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Who created the color wheel?

Who created the color wheel?

For millennia, many believed Aristotle's theory that all colors were a mixture of...

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Color wheel

Color wheel

The RYB color model is being illustrated on a color wheel.

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(Left) Additive and (right) subtractive methods of colour combination

(Left) Additive and (right) subtractive methods of colour combination

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