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The Ray Tracer Challenge
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The Ray Tracer Challenge

by Jamis Buck
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
292 pages
6h 55m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Representing Colors

Each pixel on your computer monitor is a composite of three colors: red, green, and blue. If you take those three colors and mix them in different quantities, you get just about every other color you can imagine, from red, yellow, and green, to cyan, blue, and purple, and everything in between.

If you let red, green, and blue each be a value between 0 and 1 (with 0 meaning the color is entirely absent, and 1 meaning the color is fully present), then the figure shows some possible colors you can get by combining them.

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If all components are 1, you get white. If all components are 0, you get black.

And did you catch that? A color ...

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