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is black the color of no color?

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pulpp

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i was wondering, when its dark or i close my eyes, everything looks black, if there is no light going into my eyes, shouldnt i see no colors at all? but i see black, does this mean black is the color of no clolor when we cant see colors beacuse there is no light?

 
you dont actually see colors, you see light in different wave lengths... black is the absence of light, therefor no light can bounce back to your eyes to create a color..
 


<< I think:

Black= all colours
White= the absence of colour >>




Then why are monitors black when turned off?



😉
 
Hmmm...well, a black hole is perfectly black because it's sucks up any possible light because nothing escapes is pull. Based on that reasoning I would say that black is &quot;no color.&quot;
 
Pretty much says just what I said. If light doesn't reflect back to your retina then that going along with the black hole theory. No light, no color.
 
col·or (klr)
n.
That aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of the light reflected or emitted by them, definable in terms of the observer or of the light
 
Black the COLOR as in your crayon or oil pastel is all colors. Black as in DARKNESS is the abscence of light.

In the visible spectrim of light, all the different colors of light you can see combine to make white light. When a white light is shined on a &quot;white&quot; object, all the colors are reflected back to your eyes and you see it as white. Shine a white light on a &quot;black&quot; object, and all the colors in white light are absorbed, thus no light is reflected back and you see something as black. The only way you can see an individual color of the light spectrim is to have an object that absorbs all colors but one. So a black object is not really devoid of light, but absorbing it so your eye cannot detect any light coming from that object.

Thank you Noriaki, they were starting to scare me.
 
White is all colors😛 Take your monitor for example - you get white when all (RGB) are on full. Black is the absence of light, it absorbs all color.

It's strange really, when you think about it...if you look at something, say it's green, it's actually absorbing all colors except those that make up green...
 
Something has the color green b/c it absorbs all other colors besides green, and bounces green at you. A black shirt, doesn't bounce back any color, that's why it's black. The color that is not absorbed is the color that u see... therefore a green leaf is technically all the colors but green... there's something to think about.

(ThisIsMatt, i didn't see your post when i wrote this)
 
Light is absorbed by that object and is not reflected back into your eye so it looks black. Thats pretty how much we see every color. Certain things absorb certain wavelengths of light.. Whatever wavelengths are reflected back give us the impression of color. White is all colors combined when talking about light.

Or something like that, I haven't been taught this stuff since 8th grade science.🙂
 
heh, ahh good old sub-standard science educations 🙂

&quot;what color do black crayons make?&quot;
hm, so these crayons actually generate color? The wax is a black substance, e.g. it reflects no or very little light.

did you know purple isn't a color either? it's true. notice how the color spectrum goes from red - blue. In between are the oranges, yellows, and greens. Where's purple? In reality it's just a construct of the mind, to comprehend a blend of reds and blues. cool huh?
 
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