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  • initialism printing cyan, magenta, yellow

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Examples

  • I understand that the CMY(Inkboyz)*, and the RGB(Lightboyz) place blue in opposition to yellow, but the loss of the yellow/purple opposition for the YRB(Mudboyz) results in mixing-down these two colors into greens, and this is very unsatisfactory!

    The Color Wheel, Part 7 James Gurney 2010

  • Placing RGB on the wheel evenly between CMY creates a color wheel that matches up with the color space in Photoshop.

    The Color Wheel, Part 7 James Gurney 2010

  • Meredith and Don, you're right on, and I'll attempt to cover those points about red-yellow-blue and CMY as the week goes along.

    The Color Wheel, Part 1 James Gurney 2010

  • In the RBG to CMY description, equal amounts of G + B = C which is the compliment of R.

    The Glory - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Until recently it was hard to find lightfast chemical pigments that would match up with CMY.

    The Color Wheel, Part 6 James Gurney 2010

  • I don't think CMY do a good job of rendering skin colours, for which iron oxide pigments such as Siennas, Umbers, Venetian Red, etc are best.

    The Color Wheel, Part 6 James Gurney 2010

  • It could use a shutter-it won't do fast blackouts, as they've limited the motor speed on the mechanical dimming flag-and it needs to dim to 0% without adding a CMY blackout.

    Live Design Online RSS Feed 2010

  • Now Apple has taken a more direct approach, by patenting a display technology that uses filters to reproduce images using the CMY color model rather than the RGB model.

    iTWire - IT and Telecommunications news views and jobs Jake Widman 2010

  • Printed material, on the other hand, uses a set of three colored inks (cyan, magenta, and yellow, or CMY), each of which reflects a certain part of the full white-light spectrum, and which in combination produces black.

    iTWire - IT and Telecommunications news views and jobs Jake Widman 2010

  • Usually a primary red, green and blue (RGB) color filter array is used, but secondary cyan, magenta and yellow (CMY) filters are also common.

    Engineering Hardware-Software 2010

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