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14 April 2009

history of the color wheel

The first color wheel has been attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, who in 1706 arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk. As the disk spins, the colors blur together so rapidly that the human eye sees white.
From there the organization of color has taken many forms, from tables to charts, to triangles and wheels.
Read more here.

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