Black

Steven · **Posted:** January 20th, 2008, 12:52 pm

MattVortex wrote:

Steven wrote:

Care to clarify the color white? I don't understad, if all colors combined = brown, wtf why does all colors coming from a area = white?

White light is formed when all wavelengths of visible light are emitted or reflected from something equally. So, technically, white light has brown and red and green and blue and purple and everything else in it.

On the RGB colour palette on a computer, FF-FF-FF, or 100% Red, 100% Blue, 100% Green, makes white.

Your 'all colors combined = brown' idea comes from the idea of mixing dyes, inks, paints etc. Red + Green + Yellow + other colours does make a horrible shade of brown, but considering dyes and paints is fundamentally different to considering different wavelengths of light.

OHH! Yes, now I see. Thanks for clarifying that, helped me understand a lot more now.

Adbot · **Posted:** January 20th, 2008, 12:52 pm

- Tom - · 25/11/2006

just to sum everything up which may be of use to everyone, read this post.

- Tom - wrote:

right let me explain this to people who dont understand.
btw you will go over this in last year high school...

black for vision, is a shadow. there is NO, light in a completely pitch black shadow therefore its absence of light.

normal l9ight is called white light, because it has ALL of the colours coming from it.

to make a red light you put a piece of red transparent paper infront, because something that is red ONLY lets red through, therefore all the rest of the colours will be blocked by the paper.

this also relates to spectrums where you split up the white light and it produces all the different colours in lines.

rainbows are sunlight split up by the rain - just a very big spectrum across the sky.

MattVortex wrote:

Steven wrote:

Care to clarify the color white? I don't understad, if all colors combined = brown, wtf why does all colors coming from a area = white?

White light is formed when all wavelengths of visible light are emitted or reflected from something equally. So, technically, white light has brown and red and green and blue and purple and everything else in it.

On the RGB colour palette on a computer, FF-FF-FF, or 100% Red, 100% Blue, 100% Green, makes white.

Your 'all colors combined = brown' idea comes from the idea of mixing dyes, inks, paints etc. Red + Green + Yellow + other colours does make a horrible shade of brown, but considering dyes and paints is fundamentally different to considering different wavelengths of light.

thats like a basic lesson of physics for light waves :]

and just if anyone is interested visibly light in relation to the electromagnetic spectrum basically in the middle:

the left end of that is for communication and the right side is dangerous.

cant remember the exacts of what goes off what but radio/micro one reflects off the atmosphere and the other refracts off the ionosphere

micro waves also dry up moisture in things ifshone directly into it, thus why they heat up food, but not in the same way as ovens or an open flame.

Davo · **Posted:** January 28th, 2008, 6:50 pm

To put it plain and simple, its a color and its not. It all depends on what you are talking about. If you are talking about light then its not a color. Black is the absence of all light. If you are talking about pigments, then yes it is a color. Black is the combination of all colors.

Quite simple actually.

King Kulla · **Posted:** January 28th, 2008, 11:06 pm

If "black" wasn't a colour, then racist white supremacists of the 1800's wouldn't have been able to call African-Americans "coloured people".

Go figure.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** January 29th, 2008, 12:55 am

King Kulla wrote:

If "black" wasn't a colour, then racist white supremacists of the 1800's wouldn't have been able to call African-Americans "coloured people".

Go figure.

Technically, calling Blacks "coloured" or "Negro" was consider more polite back then than the other degrading alternative.

gost302 · **Posted:** February 2nd, 2008, 12:54 pm

black is a colour

every colour is made up of lots of different colours and black is made up by all of them so therefor it must be a colour

Adbot · **Posted:** February 2nd, 2008, 12:54 pm

bhh2000 · **Posted:** February 3rd, 2008, 2:19 pm

I can see black there for I say its A color and I like it

Ryan · **Posted:** February 3rd, 2008, 2:35 pm

gost302 wrote:

black is a colour

every colour is made up of lots of different colours and black is made up by all of them so therefor it must be a colour

Black is the absence of colour, not all of them together. White is made up of every colour.

The_bad_one · **Posted:** February 3rd, 2008, 11:24 pm

I thought Black and White were considered shades, because if you mix black or white with another color you get a lighter or darker shade of that color.

- Tom - · 25/11/2006

have gost and bhh read ANYTHING that me or matt have posted...? :roll:

Dragon · **Posted:** February 5th, 2008, 2:33 pm

Black is a color, white is not. White is the absence of color. When there isn't color on anything, you have white.

Cowboyofdeath · **Posted:** February 6th, 2008, 5:20 pm

Dragon wrote:

...When there isn't color on anything, you have white.

In terms of light, though, it's literally all colors mixed together.