Arts & Culture
How Pointillism Exploits Optical Mixing in Color Theory
Quick fact
When you look at a pointillist painting from the right distance, your eye and brain blend the separate dots into a continuous image that is more luminous than any mixed paint could be, because no light is absorbed by a physical pigment blend.
Why this is interesting
You know how mixing yellow and blue paint makes green? But what if you could create green without mixing any paint at all—just by placing tiny dots of yellow and blue side by side?