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How do the eyes see colour?

From what i think i understand about the way the eye works, we have cells which can identify either red, blue or green light, which i guess corresponds to a certain wavelength (475nm, 510nm, 650nm), yet yellow light, for example, has a wavelength of 570nm. Is this picked up only partially by red and green receptors? If this is the case, technology using 3 colours of pixels in screens must be perfectly adapted to human eyes, yet a new type of television has been released with a yellow pixel as well. Would that offer any advantage to colour perception, or is it just smoke and mirrors?

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tbrucenyc says:

This question has gone unanswered so here:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision

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