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Colour theory is incredibly difficult.

To start with, the human eye does not actually see red, Green, Blue.

The vast majority of humans see Blue, Yellow/Green and Yellow/Red - the latter two are extremely close to each other and very wide-band (low purity) receptors, while the blue is very narrow (high purity).

- This is partly why Blue LEDs look so bright at low power levels.

Some women have tetrachromancy, and have a fourth colour receptor as well.

At low light levels, there is also a 'brightness' receptor that has yet another curve - this is usually completely swamped, but becomes important at low brightnesses.

Sharp have done a lot of work in converting YUV and sRGB into their new five-colour system, and it will be very interesting to see the real result.

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