As the light is reflected from the DMD, it passes through the color wheel so that the right color is displayed.

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Throw in a couple of hot-pink sweet pea vines and a clump of sunflowers, and you've exhausted the color wheel for good.

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DLPs are based off of three major things: a set of tiny, tiny mirrors (called the DMD), a color wheel, and a lamp.

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Ms. Martinek had set up her giant spinning wheel and was working with fibers the color of oatmeal, shed by a huskie named Frisket.

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