by Ira Greenberg. The primaries are red, yellow, and blue. The secondaries are green, purple, and orange. The tertiaries are yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green, and yellow-green. Create a shade or tint of the subtractive color wheel using SHADE or TINT parameters.
Original Processing.org Example: ColorWheel
// All Examples Written by Casey Reas and Ben Fry // unless otherwise stated. int segs = 12; int steps = 6; float rotAdjust = radians(360.0/segs/2.0); float radius = 95.0; float segWidth = radius/steps; float interval = TWO_PI/segs; int SHADE = 0; int TINT = 1; void setup(){ size(200, 200); background(127); smooth(); ellipseMode(CENTER_RADIUS); noStroke(); // you can substitue TINT for SHADE argument createWheel(width/2, height/2, SHADE); } void createWheel(int x, int y, int valueShift){ if (valueShift == SHADE){ for (int j=0; j<steps; j++){ color[]cols = { color(255-(255/steps)*j, 255-(255/steps)*j, 0), color(255-(255/steps)*j, (255/1.5)-((255/1.5)/steps)*j, 0), color(255-(255/steps)*j, (255/2)-((255/2)/steps)*j, 0), color(255-(255/steps)*j, (255/2.5)-((255/2.5)/steps)*j, 0), color(255-(255/steps)*j, 0, 0), color(255-(255/steps)*j, 0, (255/2)-((255/2)/steps)*j), color(255-(255/steps)*j, 0, 255-(255/steps)*j), color((255/2)-((255/2)/steps)*j, 0, 255-(255/steps)*j), color(0, 0, 255-(255/steps)*j), color(0, 255-(255/steps)*j, (255/2.5)-((255/2.5)/steps)*j), color(0, 255-(255/steps)*j, 0), color((255/2)-((255/2)/steps)*j, 255-(255/steps)*j, 0) }; for (int i=0; i< segs; i++){ fill(cols[i]); arc(x, y, radius, radius, interval*i+rotAdjust, interval*(i+1)+rotAdjust); } radius -= segWidth; } } else if (valueShift == TINT){ for (int j=0; j<steps; j++){ color[]cols = { color((255/steps)*j, (255/steps)*j, 0), color((255/steps)*j, ((255/1.5)/steps)*j, 0), color((255/steps)*j, ((255/2)/steps)*j, 0), color((255/steps)*j, ((255/2.5)/steps)*j, 0), color((255/steps)*j, 0, 0), color((255/steps)*j, 0, ((255/2)/steps)*j), color((255/steps)*j, 0, (255/steps)*j), color(((255/2)/steps)*j, 0, (255/steps)*j), color(0, 0, (255/steps)*j), color(0, (255/steps)*j, ((255/2.5)/steps)*j), color(0, (255/steps)*j, 0), color(((255/2)/steps)*j, (255/steps)*j, 0) }; for (int i=0; i< segs; i++){ fill(cols[i]); arc(x, y, radius, radius, interval*i+rotAdjust, interval*(i+1)+rotAdjust); } radius -= segWidth; } } }