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However what in regards to the colours from a video projector? It primarily does the identical factor. Nevertheless, as a substitute of a bunch of tiny RGB lights, it tasks RGB colours to completely different areas on the display.
Projecting the Colour Black
Now we’re prepared for the enjoyable stuff. How does a video projector shoot out black gentle? Black gentle could be the absence of any gentle, as we noticed earlier than. How do you mission nothing? First, let’s think about a display like a TV. You probably have three tiny lights (purple, inexperienced, blue), you may make a tiny black dot by simply turning off the lights for all three colours in that spot. Increase, it’s black!
So, is it potential that you simply simply flip off the projector to make black? That may’t be proper, can it? If that was the case, you could not inform the distinction between a projected black shade and the display with out the projector even on. Sure, that’s precisely the way it works.
Test it out: Within the following picture, I am projecting a slide that’s half black and half white. The slide takes up a lot of the display.