what exactly is white?

Answer 1

well aw white

Answer 2

White is pure light before it is reflected off anything and perceived by the eye. White is the absence of the spectrum of perceived color.

Here's the rub: Items only reflect the color they are not. So an object that reflects everything (resulting in the perception of a white object) really contains all colors.

Logically, I can understand this. The part that confuses me is that if you mix all your watercolors and paint something, it appears to be black, not white. Unless you view paint as filters of a sort, which allow only the color it is not to show through.

Arg. Too early. Brain cramps. Must have coffee. LOL

Answer 3

G'day Dave J

Thanks for the question.

White is a color (more accurately, it contains all the colors of the visible spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. The impression of white light can be created by mixing (via a process called "additive mixing") appropriate intensities of the primary color spectrum: red, green and blue, but it must be noted that the illumination provided by this technique has significant differences from that produced by incandescence.

I have attached some sources for your reference.

Regards

Answer 4

white is all of the colours together. If you shine a white light into a triangular shaped piece of glass, it will split into the spectrum of colours. With red being at the top, and violet being at the bottom. More commonly known as a 'rainbow'

Answer 5

White is as most above stated, the term applied to that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that most bounces off objects or directly is received by our eye. "White" pigment is a susbstance that does this well. When white pigment is mixed with other pigments it creates a "tint" of that pigment's color. If black is added, we get a shade, and if black is added to white, we get gray.

Answer 6

as i was informed during my art classes when at secondary school, "White is the presence of colour and Black is the absence of all colour", this was then explained further to mean that white reflects the whole spectrum of light so you see all colours in equal proportion which the eye discerns as white and black absorbs the whole spectrum of light so you do not see any colour reflection hence the eye discerns this as total darkness(Black)

Answer 7

White is the mixture of 7 colours; red, orange, yellow,green,blue,indigo & violet.
Again, White is anything that reflects all the colours and absorbs non.

Answer 8

White is the rainbow all in one
The colours of the spectrum undivided
http://www.james-robinson.ltd.uk/colour.htm

Answer 9

apparently technically its not a colour, its a reflection of all colours. (this is sciency bit now)

They 'colour' white reflects all colours and the colour black absorbs all colours. So black isn't a colour as well.

A colour is only a colour when it reflects the light but absorbs all other... Like red will reflect red light but absorb yellow light...

So white is kind of like a reflection of everything...

Answer 10

In light, an even blend of all the colours... in anything else, something that reflects all parts of the spectrum evenly...

Answer 11

It's the colour that occurs when all the colours of light coincide. I say light, it won't happen with pigments like in your paint kit!