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Colour cameras guess two thirds of each pixel

Bryce Bayer's 1976 mosaic puts one colour filter over each photosite, and software interpolates the missing values A silicon sensor counts photons, not colours, so a filter array of red, green and blue squares sits on top of it. Green appears twice as often because human vision is most sensitive to it, and the arrangement is called the Bayer pattern. Demosaicing algorithms estimate the two absent colours from neighbours, which is why fine detail can produce colour fringing. It sits in Mondo's technology collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Bryce Bayer's 1976 mosaic puts one colour filter over each photosite, and software interpolates the missing values. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a technology fact?: Yes. It sits on the Technology shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.