arromdee@cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee) (04/14/91)
In article <15410001@hp-and.HP.COM> panek@hp-and.HP.COM (Jon Panek) writes: >... a more accurate nomenclature for the subtractive primaries are >magenta, cyan and yellow. >... >Folklore has it that the aforementioned Dr. Land would call up the >CEO of Crayola on an annual basis, slightly before Christmas. He >demanded that Crayola include in its crayon sets three crayons which >were accurate primaries. He claimed that children in elementary >schools were being misled when told that "mixing red and yellow >gives you orange", or "mixing blue and yellow give you green". Each >year the CEO replied that no, the subtractive primaries hadn't been >included. This is silly. As a kid I had Crayola crayons that most definitely _did_ include at least magenta, and after learning about subtractive primaries I tested it myself by combining magenta and yellow, and sure enough it _did_ give red. Yellow and purple also gave a nice brown. [Note the followup-to line.] -- "If God can do anything, can he float a loan even he can't repay?" --Blair Houghton, cross-posting Kenneth Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm; INTERNET: arromdee@cs.jhu.edu)