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Post by nicolii on Nov 27, 2010 18:19:37 GMT -5
Are white and black actual colors? Are they not?
Discuss. :]
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Post by Flappy on Nov 27, 2010 19:42:51 GMT -5
No. Black is the absense of color and white is the color spectrum (all colors). In art anyway. I think that they are colors though, because we have clear glass, and since we can see color through it, I think that "clear" is the only real thing without color. (I could be wrong.)
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Post by nicolii on Nov 27, 2010 23:38:57 GMT -5
No. Black is the absense of color and white is the color spectrum (all colors). In art anyway. I think that they are colors though, because we have clear glass, and since we can see color through it, I think that "clear" is the only real thing without color. (I could be wrong.) My thoughts exactly. :]
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Post by qooqǝɯɐƃ on Nov 27, 2010 23:50:38 GMT -5
What has this forum come to!?! We're debating whether or not black and white are classified as colours!?! "Colour" is just a word. Does it matter if someone chooses or not to classify black and white as colours? That aside, imo, black and white are colours.
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Post by austkyzor on Nov 27, 2010 23:52:29 GMT -5
Well, they're colours according to a box of Crayons
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Post by krzych32 on Nov 28, 2010 0:27:20 GMT -5
Black is not a color, white is.
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Post by Ryan on Nov 28, 2010 0:53:29 GMT -5
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Post by Freddy on Nov 28, 2010 11:21:12 GMT -5
You restarted the thread because you ended the end. I consider them colors. You don't say: Hand me the absence of color crayola! or That's a nice absence of colored dress! (weird grammar is weird). Even though both colors aren't a color by the definition of it, society treats them as such. Conclusion: Scientifically, no. Colloquially, yes.
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Post by Kevak on Nov 28, 2010 15:49:13 GMT -5
White is just a really light shade of black.
/abstract thinking.
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Post by Ryan on Nov 28, 2010 16:36:41 GMT -5
Scientifically, both are colors.
Black is the color you see when there is no reflection or refraction of light. White is what you see when you see the entire spectrum of visable light.
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Post by Lex on Nov 28, 2010 17:43:28 GMT -5
Black, in terms of optics, is the absence of reflection/refraction of light. Therefore, you don't see any colours. White is all of the colours visible at once. In terms of pigments, though, black is the presence of all colours and white is the absence.
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Post by marypo on Nov 30, 2010 10:31:02 GMT -5
If you can see it, it must have some color.
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Post by kdphilosophy on Nov 30, 2010 11:24:43 GMT -5
I totally get the arguments about optics. And this works in a technical sense, But black and white are also hues that can be made and stuck into a crayon-box, so on some level their also "colors" at least to the extend that they can be processed as colors by us. Though colors do exist in reality, the naming of them is really manmade and I think the nitpicking is a little strange. I guess it really depends on what way you look at it, Both are correct as far as I can see.
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Post by amon91 on Nov 30, 2010 13:50:14 GMT -5
I totally get the arguments about optics. And this works in a technical sense, But black and white are also hues that can be made and stuck into a crayon-box, so on some level their also "colors" at least to the extend that they can be processed as colors by us. Though colors do exist in reality, the naming of them is really manmade and I think the nitpicking is a little strange. I guess it really depends on what way you look at it, Both are correct as far as I can see. My thoughts exactly.
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