Red, yellow, blue -- those are the primary colors.
Red and yellow makes orange. And when I look at orange, it totally looks like a mixture of red and yellow.
Red and blue makes purple. And when I look at purple, it absolutely looks like a mixture of red and blue.
Blue and yellow makes green. And when I look at green -- I don't see blue or yellow at all. Green might as well be another primary color.
The thing is, I've thought this my whole life, to the point where it didn't occur to me that maybe not everyone thinks this. It was just obviously the case that green was distinct in being "independent" of its two bases. And it was literally last night that I had the epiphany that this might not be a universal perception.
So I asked my wife, and sure enough -- she didn't see it that way at all. Green to her looks like a mixture of blue and yellow, just as much as orange and purple look like mixtures of their two primaries.
Apparently, I've been nuts for my entire life. Unless the internet can now come to save me.
