Investigations of the firefly: the colours

What are the three primary colours?

With blue, red and yellow pigments, a decorator shows all the desired colors. Those of the rainbow appear when white light is deflected through the raindrops. The pink of the ibis and the flamingos is caused by carotenoids content in the shrimp. The color green plants comes from tuhe chlorophyll pigment, which captures the sunlight and converts it into food.

And Lucie? Her picture is composed of pixels, each is the result of a mixture of four colors.

Pariscience 2007