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		glhaynes on April 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Richard Feynman on education in Brazil I believe this is why a gamma transform is made at presentation time. But maybe what you're interested in is adding RGB tuples before presentation?

billswift on April 26, 2011 [–]

What he is trying to do is produce a simple relation between RGB values and EM frequencies; which is not possible. There is no simple relationship there, RGB values are only related to how we see light, how our eyes work, not to the EM spectrum.

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