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How can pixels display brown, while RGB led's lights can't?

While busy with project I'm wondering how you can't make a brown looking color with a RGB led light, but pixel can display brown really well. What is the biggest different between a RGB led light(for example a MiLight or Arduino RGB LED) and a (monitor) pixel what makes it works?

Is there a way to program any RGB light to output a brown light color?

Solution

  • LEDs are rather large so your eye can easily identify only the R and B being on for example, so we see a red and a blue light source. A monitor pixel is so small that our brain sees the R and B as magenta instead.

    You can read about here on Wikipedia.