A few BassFans wrote in about a recent story on the Catch More Fish page about bass and color perception.
The confusion arose because we're all taught in art class that the primary colors are red, blue and yellow. That's true when using pigments, like paints. It's called subtractive primaries – when you blend the three primary colors you get black, or the absence of color.
But when dealing with light, and an animal's perception of light, red, green and blue are the primaries. It's called additive primaries, because when you blend all three you get white (the presence of all colors). This article deals with light perception, thus the relevant primaries are red, green and blue.
