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## I. An Overview of RGB Builds
The world of PC building has made use of RGB (Red Green Blue) lighting to illuminate builds. RGB builds are customized computers or gaming setups where the hardware and accessories are internally lit in a rainbow palette. As this trend caught on, PC hardware manufacturers started manufacturing components and peripherals with built-in RGB lighting.
### 1.1 Why Color Matching in RGB Builds?
Color matching refers to the symmetrical and thematic arrangement of colors to create an aesthetic look. In RGB builds, color matching plays an integral role in overall aesthetics, theme presentation, and user-interface unity. It holds the power to either make or break the visual appeal of your rig setup.
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## II. Understanding Colors in RGB Builds
To comprehend color matching in RGB builds, understanding color itself becomes an essential task. Here, knowing color theory, and different color models like the RGB color model, can practically guide you.
### 2.1 Color Theory
Color theory is a combined set of rules that designers follow to create a particular aesthetic feel. It’s the technique behind combining aesthetics, science, and art to create harmony between colors.
#### 2.1.1 The Color Wheel
The color wheel helps designers pick and combine colors in a gratifying way. Comprising twelve fundamental colors, the wheel includes three primary (red, blue, yellow), three secondary (green, orange, purple), and six tertiary colors (mixture of primary and secondary colors).
#### 2.1.2 Color Schemes
Different color pairs present on the wheel form different color schemes. Common among them are:
a. Monochromatic color scheme: Consists of different shades, tones, and tints of a single base color.
b. Analogous color scheme: Uses colors adjacent, or next to, each other on the color wheel.
c. Complementary color scheme: Uses colors that are opposite, or complementary, to each other on the color wheel.
d. Split-complementary color scheme: A variation of the complementary scheme where a base color and two adjacent tertiary colors are used.
### 2.2 RGB Color Model
The RGB color model is a color model designed for sensing, representation, and displaying images and graphics in electronic systems, such as in computers, gaming setups, or televisions.
#### 2.2.1 What is the RGB Color Model?
RGB stands for Red, Green, and Blue – three primary colors from which a vast spectrum of hues can be created through additive mixing. Here, the color generation happens through the light itself rather than reflected light of pigmented surfaces.
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With the theory base laid down, the next steps would be understanding the RGB components, software to control RGB lighting, popular RGB color effects, practical guide to color matching in an RGB build, and case studies, among others.
