ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

RG color models

Okay, kiddo! Have you ever used crayons to color a picture? Well, when you color, you pick a crayon and make a mark on the paper. But did you know that every crayon has a different color? Some might be red, others blue, or green.

Now, imagine that there are only two crayons: one red and one green. When you want to draw a picture using these two colors, you have to make sure you use the right crayon for each part of the drawing. This is called using the "red-green" color model, because you only have those two colors to work with.

Well, in the world of computers, there are also different color models that help us create and display colors. One of them is called the RGB color model. It works like the red-green crayon example, but it uses three colors: red, green, and blue.

So, whenever you see a color on a computer screen or in a digital image, it's made up of varying amounts of these three colors. For example, if you see a bright yellow color, it's actually made up of mostly red and green, and only a little bit of blue.

Using the RGB color model allows us to create a wide range of colors in digital images, just like using different colored crayons allows us to create a wide range of colors on paper. Pretty cool, huh?