2006-12-07 02:24:05 · 11 answers · asked by Tha Most Shady 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
There are 3 primary colors: red, blue, and yellow. There are 3 secondary colors: purple, green, and orange. White is the absence of color, and black is the absorption of all color. Any other color is a shade of one of these.
2006-12-07 02:32:22 · answer #1 · answered by not_so_little_black_dress 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word "colour" is misleading. It refers to the ability of the eye to distinguish three different aspects of visible lightwaves.
If we talk about "hues", six is really the answer. The three primary colours, hues really (red, yellow and blue) are all our eyes can distinguish, but combinations of any two of these are processed in the brain. These are the secondary colours (orange, violet, and green) and although millions of such mixes exist, they are still only one of these secondary colours. Six, then.
If we include the qualiy of intensity as changing a colour, we can see colours which are made up of all three primaries in various proportions. Any one of these, including any brown, grey, black, and white, is still just a "tertiary" colour. So, seven.
Black is just a dark grey, and white a light grey, and any colour can have a huge variation of lightness, to which our eyes are constantly adjusting. If we were to include all of these variations of "value" as individual colours, the number would be infinite and therefore meaningless.
2006-12-07 04:32:06 · answer #2 · answered by Rynbow 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The human eye can comprehend approximatly 16 million colors. Actually there are four basic colors (red, green, blue and yellow) everything else are combinations of these three. But I think you can't find pure versions of the above colors in nature... Only in digital.
2006-12-07 22:44:23 · answer #3 · answered by manosfantasyart 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are three primary colors. You multiply by how many secondary and Tertiary colors and then by possible shades. The answer is the illusion that there are thousands as the light wave particles bounce the radiation back to your retina for your brain to register what is visible to you.
2006-12-07 02:27:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only three: Red, Green and Blue, after that, everything is a mixture of those, so they're not different.
I think the human eye can differentiate between millions of shades.
2006-12-07 02:30:11 · answer #5 · answered by mikah_smiles 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Millions.
It depends on how you define them. Do you define color by different percentages of pigments? By PANTONE color? By nanometer of light?
Do you just mean different names? That's cultural. English and French, for instance, have more refined color names than many older or tribal languages. Some cultures, while they distinguish blue and green personally, only have one term for it. Anthropologists call this 'grue'.
2006-12-07 02:27:16 · answer #6 · answered by Cobalt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-24 20:54:04 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 different colors
2006-12-11 02:06:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
7.
2006-12-07 02:28:18 · answer #9 · answered by David H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all of the colors you can think of (approximately 2937)
2006-12-07 02:25:45 · answer #10 · answered by Jake 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋