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What we call the light color is the reaction of the combination of our eye and our brain to the wavelengths combination contained in the light detected by the eye (the so called wavelength spectrum).

It is very important to consider that also the brain elaboration has a role, to understand important facts in our vision like the capability to combine different colors in a resulting color (red plus blue is brown, yellow plus red is orange and so on).

In a first approximation, considering the fundamental colors (the rainbow colors just to be clear) as pure frequencies, selecting one of these colors means to select a light spectrum as tight as possible around the color frequency.

This is exactly the working of a monochromatic filter, that is a filter that ideally extract a single frequency from an incoming multi-frequency light beam.

If we want to select a secondary color (like orange for example) we have to select the related primary colors with two filters and combine them after attenuating the most powerful component so to obtain the orange wanted degree.

As a matter of fact, while primary colors corresponds to pure frequencies and in their ideal nature have a single pure form, secondary colors depends on what is the respective power of the components that are mixed.

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