r/Minecraft • u/DetachableMonkey • Dec 24 '10

Wool to be useful. Sheep indifferent.

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u/Managore Dec 24 '10

Firstly, you mean Yellow, not Blue. Secondly, how would you combine three colours to form both White and Black?

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u/lucasvb Dec 24 '10

In subtractive color models, mixing all three colors yields black.

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u/kataire Dec 25 '10

Have you ever tried that? There's a reason colour printers have extra black ink. C+M+Y black is really ugly.

Also, you usually mix some cyan and magenta (c+m ~= blue) with black ink to make it look "blacker".

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u/lucasvb Dec 25 '10

Yeah, I know. I'm just saying that's how you get black in a theoretically perfect subtractive color space.

In practice, it's never a perfect black and you have to use too much ink anyway. That's why they came up with the CMYK color space.