Understanding the arithmetic of color

J. Medina Márquez^a*, S.E. Balderas-Mata^b, and C. Zúñiga Islas^a

^a Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Luis Enrique Erro No. 1 Sta. Ma. Tonantzintla, Puebla, 72840 Pue. México. e-mail: *jmedina@inaoep.mx; czuniga@inaoep.mx

^b Universidad de Guadalajara, CUCEI, Departamento de Electrónica, Blvd. Marcelino García Barragán # 1421, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, 44430. e-mail: sandra.balderas@cucei.udg.mx

Abstract

In this work we propose to introduce Arithmetic for the Mixture of Colors, which can be defined from dividing the electromagnetic spectrum of white light in three thirds, and by associating each of them to an algebraic expression of the three primary additive and subtractive colors. Then, we will give the rules for adding or subtracting to predict the new mixture of resultant colors.

Keywords: Mixture of colors; chromatic arithmetic.

PACS: 01.40.E, 01.40.eg, 01.40ek

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