Skip main navigation

The three basic colors

We will talk about the three-color theory, which includes red, green, blue.

In the previous week, we have talked about the eyes, and we have known that how neuron activity works.

Let’s move on to the light, and see how our visual systems convert the light.

Picture Credit: 1. Cengage Learning 2. Cengage Learning 2014 3. openstax.org 4. Clulow, F. W. (1972). Color: Its principles and their applications. New York: Morgan & Morgan.

This article is from the free online

Seeing: How the Brain Creates the Visual World

Created by
FutureLearn - Learning For Life

Reach your personal and professional goals

Unlock access to hundreds of expert online courses and degrees from top universities and educators to gain accredited qualifications and professional CV-building certificates.

Join over 18 million learners to launch, switch or build upon your career, all at your own pace, across a wide range of topic areas.

Start Learning now