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[css-color-4] define chromaticity diagram
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and the chromaticity is the same with both lights
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(they are the same color, it is just brighter).
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Chromaticities are additive,
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so they accurately predict
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the chromaticity (but not the resulting lightness)
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of a mixture.
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Being two-dimensional, chromaticity is easily represented
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on a <em>chromaticity diagram</em>
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to predict the chromaticity of a color mixture.
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Any two colors can be mixed, and the resulting colors
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will lie on the line joining them on the diagram.
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Three colors form a plane, and the resulting colors
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will lie in the triangle they form on the diagram.
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When the measured physical characteristics
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(such as the <abbr title="measured color, irrespective of lightness">chromaticities</abbr> of the primary colors it uses,

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