How many other colours are there?

Question

Apart from the colours in the rainbow and black and white how many more colours are there to be discovered?

Answer 1

Color theory is quite complex. I won't try to answer your question in a few paragraphs... but if you want to understand I will direct you to some useful and fairly understandable resources:

http://www.colorcube.com/articles/basics/basics.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_model

Answer 2

There are three primary colours that are the basis of all others.Black and White are not colours,Black = the elimination of all light and White = the union of all light.Each recognised combination of the primary colours have 200 discernible shades except for grey which has 500.

Answer 3

From an artist's point of view hues (common names of color that have specific positions on the spectrum) are made of three primary colors (red, blue and yellow), three secondary colors (green, violet and orange), and six intermediate colors (yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet, red-orange and yellow-orange). You can make tertiary colors by mixing any two secondary colors or by mixing the neutralization of one color and it's compliment (ex. red and green). These colors in painting are used to make natural shadows. You can make an infinite amount of colors doing this, but the basics you come across are browns, olives and maroons (brown would be the product of red and green). Other ways you can change the intensity of colors is by adding white or black. Adding white (or light) gives you tints of hues and adding black (absence of light) gives you shades of hues.

lol So after all that, what I'm saying is there is no limit on the amount of colors you can find or make. As far as named colors the biggest box of Crayola's I've seen is 96. You could also check out paint stores for more named colors.

Answer 4

science proves only 3 and some 4 exist (the primary colours), all other colours are a mixture of these 3

Answer 5

I believe all the colors have been discovered in the visible light spectrum from Red to Violet. How many colors are there? How many stars are there in the universe?

Answer 6

It depends upon whether you are talking light or otherwise

With more and more sophisticated equipment there will always be room for more shades to me discovered but not actual colours as such.

Answer 7

Color is defined by the wavelength of the light you are looking at. Theoretically, you could name an infinite number of colors because you just keeping adding decimal places to the value of the wavelength to come up with new colors between other colors.

Answer 8

There are too many colours that we can found. For example, if you combine blue and green, you get cyan. You combine blue and red, you get another colour again. It is the combinations that give us real lot of colours.

Answer 9

In fact, I think there are many undiscovered colors. I once heard that scientists who use the Hubble Telescope say they've seen many new colors in Orion...don't know if it's true but might be interesting to look into! Cheers!

Answer 10

Colours aren't a 'discovery' individually. Colour is a frequency of electromagnetic energy. There is an infinite range of electromagnetic energy, and we only 'see' a narrow band of it with our eyes.