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- The process is a bit more
- complicated than this, but you
- have the general picture. The
- computer sends a stream of ons and
- offs, and the monitor faithfully
- displays these as dots on the
- screen. The dots compose your
- picture.
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- If you have a color monitor,
- there are three electron guns
- instead of one, and three dif-
- ferent coatings on the glass.
- One causes the screen to glow
- green where it's electrons hit,
- another causes red and the last
- causes blue. By mixing these
- three colors, you get all the
- colors your monitor can put out.
- There are actually three
- pictures, one in each negative
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- color, on your screen.
- Negative colors are a bit
- hard to figure out. How can
- green + red = yellow? But try
- this. Next time your tv is
- showing yellow, look at it very
- close, and you'll see that up
- close, the yellow actually
- resolves into red and green!
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- This test is hard to see
- on a monitor because the
- monitor has greater
- accuracy, but a color
- television shows it well.
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