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Old 09-14-2012, 10:35 AM   #56
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
I suppose eInk must have considered this? Or perhaps I'm overlooking something obvious that would stop it working.
The fact that you would get the colors with filters, perhaps?

In the RGB system you need bandpass filters which are easy to make. But how do you suppose the filters for the CMY system should be?



Let's say that you want to get a cyan filter. You can't make a filter that transmits just blue and green. You can make a filter that transmits just cyan, or try to filter out red, but you run into a little problem, because of the wavelengths that the eye is sensitive to:
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