You are both a bit incorrect. Light is made up of the variety of "coloured" energy along a specific form. Objects like paint contain material that reflect certain portions of that light spectrum. The difference is that light is indeed made up of the colours in the spectrum while black is actually what occurs when you combine all of the materials that reflect colour.
On Mar 2, 12:40 pm, DarkwaterBlight <[email protected]> wrote: > "White is the > result of a combination OF colours, so is not a pure colour."-Pat > > While I would like to agree with you on this, I cannot. Here's > the challenge; In a five gallon bucket mix the colors Red, Orange, > Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. I am willing to take any wager > that you will come up with the most obscene color you have ever > realized and not the purest of white, which, by the way has been > representative of purity for a long time. > The fact of the matter is that White light is pure and every > other color in the light spectrum is a dilute! I will give you this > much; You connot purchase Infrared, Near Ultraviolet and Far > Ultraviolet at Lowe's or Home Depot so your recipe for White is yet to > be comlete. > On Mar 2, 8:51 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2 Mar, 01:40, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > One of the greatest things in life is color and the ability to see > > > it. The flowers, the sky, the rivers and the mountains, skin tones, > > > hair and the color of the moon. Everything has color and even black > > > and white is color. > > > Black is the absence of colour; it is NOT a colour. White is the > > result of a combination OF colours, so is not a pure colour. > > > > But color has meaning beyond it's basic hue and so what does color > > > mean to you. > > > > Obviously there has been assignments of color throughout the years, > > > pink for girls and blue for boys. You won't find a man driving around > > > in a pink car. Yes I know there are exceptions. > > > > Black is dark and Goth and for Funeral Processions. > > > > Red might be Romantic. > > > > Purple might be......................... > > > Crikey, we could get rude here. But, the first thing that came to my > > mind was the colour of a corpse in a particular point of > > putrifaction. That was based purely, though, on the various Buddhist > > meditations of which, 'Purple Corpse' is one. > > > > Green might be ............. > > > Money or envy or the colour of living plant life or, from the world of > > sci-fi, the colour of those with copper-based blood. > > > > Yellow? > > > Sunlight. Cowardice. And, of course, jaundice. > > > > Orange? > > > A type of citrus fruit. A colour that is tricky to find a word with > > which it rhymes. "The future is..." > > > > Violet? > > > The name of a girl (surnamed 'Beauregarde') that turns into a giant > > blueberry in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". A type of African > > flower. > > > > So really, what does color mean to you? How do you see it? How do > > > you use it? > > > There's almost no chance of describing the colours I see to another, > > as I can never be sure that the other sees them in the same way. The > > best way is to describe them as Fiddler alludes to, in terms of EM > > wavelength. But, of course, that tells us nothing visual. What does > > a blind man see when his eyes are open versus when his eyes are > > closed? I can see a difference, but it depends on the amount of light > > (and the colour OF the light) in the room/area. > > > > Are there colors that sit in the median while others signify attitude, > > > preference and demeanor. > > > This is a type of Rorschach test and the number of answers are as > > different as people are. Colours aren't always seen the same by > > people (red/green colour blindness, for example) and people's > > experiences may change the way they react TO a colour. Red may be one > > person's favourite colour, until sent to war. > > > > How do you "Assign" colors?- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
