In the natural world we experience color thru subtractive color synthesis. In the natural world all color colored objects contain pigments.
Pigments are chemical or organic substances that possess different sensitivities to light .
These substances have the ability to absorb only portions of white light , while reflecting others. Giving us primary colors, red, yellow, blue, the color wheel of our childhood. In the virtual world we experience color thru additive color synthesis. A method of creating color by mixing two or three distinct photonic waves. In the virtual world there are 256 color combination, but only 216 are web safe colors.