if magenta light shines through a cyan filter, what color would appear on a white screen?

Question

if magenta light shines through a cyan filter, what color would appear on a white screen?

Answer 1

The magenta light source has both red and blue components, being deficient or entirely lacking in green. The cyan filter will block the red component from the magenta light but will still pass the blue component, allowing it to appear on the white screen.

Answer 2

Magenta is a beautiful color and is made by adding primary colors red and blue in an RGB color system. It is also a part of the CMYK color system which is used mainly on printing purposes. These two color systems differ in such a way that RGB's are relected energy while CMYK is absorbed energy. Going back to your question, magenta is not spectral, meaning invisible to human eye since it cannot be generated by light in a single wavelenght.

Answer 3

Here's something to remember.

The primary colors of light are R, G, B (red, green, blue).

___R___

G_____B

The secondaries are Y, M, C (Yellow, Magenta, Cyan). R+G=Y, R+B=M, G+B=C.

____R____
__Y___M__
G_______B
____C____

(I can't get it to look like a circle, sorry)

Anyway, magenta light shining through a cyan filter is basically R+B light shining through G+B. The light common between the two is the only light that will shine through.

Answer 4

In a perfect universe, black ☺
That is to say, no light would get through. In the real world, probably a very dim shade of bluish grey.

Doug