Definitions
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- initialism printing
cyan ,magenta ,yellow
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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In the RBG to CMY description, equal amounts of G + B = C which is the compliment of R.
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Until recently it was hard to find lightfast chemical pigments that would match up with CMY.
The Color Wheel, Part 6 James Gurney 2010
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Usually a primary red, green and blue (RGB) color filter array is used, but secondary cyan, magenta and yellow (CMY) filters are also common.
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