> >> Just found this very interesting thing on the web regarding the
> >> above. Have a look at the background of the following webpage:
> >>
> >>
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/mwd_search.html
> >>
> >> Most surprisingly, it does look (at least to my eyes and on my
> >> screen) like a smooth transition from blue to yellow _without_
> >> an obvious green or grey in between. To see it more clearly,
> >> you can try saving the background image and opening it in your
> >> computer; it is a thin stripe in whose middle you will find
> >> the closest approximation to yellowblue I've ever seen on
> >> a computer screen.
> >
> >Um, on my screen, it starts as turquoise blue and goes to white via very
> pale
> >green. There's not a trace of yellow.
>
> Then you must revise the calibration of your monitor, because
> the colour at the right extreme is RGB {255,255,206}={FF,FF,CE},
> that is, the encoding *is* without the slightest doubt that of
> a pale pure yellow and as such should appear on any properly
> calibrated monitor. It clearly appears as such on mine, so mine
> is presumably not the one that needs calibration. The colour
> at the left extreme is RGB {156,206,206}={9C,CE,CE}, a pale
> cyan blue.