Chapter 3, Problem 56E

Explanation of Solution

RGB colour value:

• Three primary colours in RGB colour model are Red, Green, and Blue.
• The combination of these three primary colours can be used to produce 16.5 million colours.
• Computers are designed to use RGB output device which uses RGB values.
• Three numbers are used for every colour in RGB mode to indicate the contribution of three primary colours for its colour formation.
• Each colour in RGB is represented using 8 bits and it ranges from 0-255.
• Formation of colours using three numeric values are shown in the below table.

RGB colour values

Colour