He was interested in color, and spent 6 years investigating perception of color, color blindness, and color theory. His research led to the idea of taking three identical photographs, where each photo was taken through a colored filter. One was red, one was green, and one was blue. Maxwell had slides of each made and projected this image at a lecture in 1861.
Maxwell may have been the last great theorist who was also a great tinkerer.
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Huh, didn't know that either. I vaguely remember he took the first color photo, but didn't know the rest.
Like Old NFO, I didn't know that but I didn't even vaguely recall hearing that. I'm somewhat of a fan of Maxwell, too. Enough to buy a copy of his biography, but not enough to have read the whole thing, though. (Yeah, I know... intellectually too lazy)
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