COLOR MIXES USING TRANSPARENCY
There's a color mixing tool which unfortunately does not work for MSN TV (WebTV), because it uses Java. But looking through that site gave me an idea. We can mix colors by using CSS to position them exactly where we want them to be on the page. We can easily create overlapping areas of color that will give us the effect of holding pieces of colored glass over each other.
Let's take the following color: "#ff6666" - we'll table it, putting all the attributes into the table tag.
<![CDATA[<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=200 height=100 bgcolor="#ff6666"><tr><td></td></tr></table>]]>
Now we'll break the color up into its 3 components: It consists of the following 3 colors: "#ff0000" (bright red) and "#006600" (dark green) and "#000066" (dark blue).
When hues of light are mixed, the resulting colors differ from when we use pigments, and they lighten each other, provided they are mixed in the same color tag, "#ff6666." Now we'll place the same 3 separate colors overlapping each other and see what we get. Transparency for all 3 is 66%.
As you can see, we sure didn't get the same color as when we used those 3 colors all mixed in the same tag "#ff6666." But we did get 4 different colors. So play around with mixing colors this way. Trial and error is the best teacher.