Colors pt. 2

Now we are onto the second lesson in colors!
We will be talking about Secondary colors and HSV!

Secondary colors and what you get when you combine the Primary (red, green, and blue) colors.
They included Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow (commonly found in color printers) among others. Secondary colors are not natural computer colors.

Now for HSV!

HSV stands for Hue, Saturation and Value. Also known as the hex-cone color model.
1. Hue represents color.
2. Saturation tells the computer how much grey is in the color space.
A) Common values range from 0-100% but can also be 0-1. (0 is grey and 1 is a primary color.)
3. Value (sometimes called "brightness" in which case the term would be HSB) is the brightness of a color, affected by the saturation.
A) Values also range from 0-100%, 0 being completely black. HSV colors are most often used for high quality computer graphics, like pictures.
An advantage of HSV color is the fact that it is closely related to how humans see color, unlike RGB and CMYK which base their colors off of primary colors.

An there you have it folks! A little knowledge about the colors you see in and around your computers!

P.S. If you get water on one of those old glass computer monitors, you can see the breakdown of primary colors. Pretty neat.