Applies to many other colors as well. I “understand” why that is but it hurts my brain to think about.

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    What I meant is that if you have a photo of a yellow flower, I’d would say that the file contains “yellow color”, even though it only uses RGB values. The display is “transmitting yellow into your brain” by emitting a combination of wavelengths. Wavelength that normally represents color yellow is not emitted, but the “color yellow” is sent, in a way