2006-08-10 23:09:55 · 14 answers · asked by answer queen 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
First of all you are confusing light with pigment.
Black is no light, white is all light.
Black is all pigment (theoretically), white is no pigment.
Brown is a combination of pigments.
Brown light would be a low tinted orange light.
2006-08-10 23:18:23 · answer #1 · answered by cirestan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of it in terms oh how light is produced. Light is basically a collection of photons, which basically are 'lumps' of energy. Low energyis are primaraly red, high energies are primarly blue.
When you see something black, it means that the object is not emitting any energy at all, the eye see's no incoming energy and interprets it as black. When you see white, what you're getting is a combination of all colour photons (red/green/blue) all mixed. When you see brown what your actually seeing a mixture of photons which are mostly red and a bit of green and only a little blue.
The reason why there are different photons emitted are due to the way electrons are arranged around the atom. They exist in set levels away from the nucleus. When any light hits an object, the electrons absorb the energy, get exicted, move to some alternate level (higher in energy) and in a short time lose that energy (this emitting the exact energy between the two levels). This is why most things are always the same colour, it's all down to the electrons.
2006-08-11 06:21:14 · answer #2 · answered by Joe_Floggs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, there are only three primary colours. red, green and blue. Combinations of these in right proportions can produce most of the colours the human eye can perceive. In fact, white light is also a combination of these three colours in proper ratio.
the combination can be additive(TV and comp monitor) or subtractive(painting,drawing).
Technically speaking, colours are the way our brain, by use of our eyes, interprets electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength between 350 and 750 nanometers.
2006-08-11 06:24:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's one of the colours. What's your problem?
Light varies in frequency. (Light is part of the same electromagnetic spectrum as radio, TV, microwaves, Xrays, etc)
If you have light of only one frequency, then you have a pure color (like the red of a laser).
But in the real world almost all light is a mixture of frequencies. If the mixture has the same intensity for every frequency, then it looks white.
If the red frequency dominates a little, then it looks pink. If the red frequency dominates a LOT, then it looks red.
There are many different shades of browns, but all of them can be represented as a mixture of various frquencies of light.
2006-08-11 06:18:32 · answer #4 · answered by Doctor Hand 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes from the light, of course.
Or, another way of looking at it, the color brown comes from the object you're looking at--as the light strikes that object.
2006-08-11 06:21:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup, brown is just a certain combination of other colors. The easiest way to get the right recipe is to go to a paint store. They can create any color for you, and tell you what amounts of which colors they added to white to get your color.
2006-08-11 06:18:33 · answer #6 · answered by iandanielx 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
red, blue and green are three basic colours. you get brown and all other colors and their shades from the permutation and combination of these colors alone.
2006-08-11 06:15:16 · answer #7 · answered by saurabh k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
combination of white and black to form brown
2006-08-11 06:12:01 · answer #8 · answered by blck_angl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Brown is actually a dark orange. No kidding.
2006-08-11 11:07:59 · answer #9 · answered by Benjamin N 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
from Quincy Jones the Godmother of rainbow.
2006-08-11 06:14:05 · answer #10 · answered by volksbank 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋