RGB - History of RGB Color Model Theory and Usage

History of RGB Color Model Theory and Usage

The RGB color model is based on the Young–Helmholtz theory of trichromatic color vision, developed by Thomas Young and Hermann Helmholtz, in the early to mid nineteenth century, and on James Clerk Maxwell's color triangle that elaborated that theory (circa 1860).

A photograph of Mohammed Alim Khan (1880–1944), Emir of Bukhara, taken in 1911 by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii using three exposures with red, green, and blue filters.

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