For many years, the so-called ”Newton's disc” has been used in optical teaching in an attempt to illustrate the human eye's mechanism of spectral perception of visible light. His proposal is, when rotated, appears to be white, which is the sum of all colors of the spectrum printed on it. In fact, the resulting color we see is a shade of gray, as in that case there is a subtractive synthesis. The purpose of this work is to build a disc, such as Newton's one, in which we can compose through colored LEDs not only white color, as also yellow, cyan and magenta. This time, colors are generated by additive synthesis based on the Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory.
Keywords:
Newton's disk; LED; Young-Helmholtz
