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Additive colours, multimedia activities

Contains a shockwave movie that gives you the three primary colours (RGB) and allows you to move spotlights around to see the affect of colour addition. Subscription required but with 30 day free ...

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http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspDetail&ResourceID=11

Bubble colours

Find out how the properties of light waves give bubbles their colour.

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http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/bubbles/bubble_colors.html

Colour Applet

A simple program that allows students to mix red, green and blue in different quantities to form different colours.

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http://www.cbu.edu/~jvarrian/applets/color1/colors_g.htm

Spectral colours

Appears straight forward-lacks colour. Some links are quite advanced but most can be accessed by a large age and ability range.

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/specol.html

Why do rainbow-like colours appear on the surface of oil?

Non-mathematical explanation of colours seen in an oil film. Nice diagram and accompanying photograph.

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http://www.hk-phy.org/iq/oil_rainbow/oil_rainbow_e.html

The Colour Group (Great Britain)

Home page for the Colour Group (Great Britain) detailing membership, forthcoming meetings and a colour calculator for digitizing colour.

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http://www.city.ac.uk/colourgroup/

A detailed site containing lots of information about colour and some very good applets. Best suited for a research project but does contain simple colour mixing applets and a good selection of images.

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