is black the void of all color and white the results of all colors?…?

Answer 1

Black is what you see when a surface absorbs all light hitting it. White is what you see when a surface reflects all light hitting it.
When you look at a surface, the color you see is the light that is reflected. For example, a red apple absorbs all light but the color red, which it reflects.
Ironically, if you wanted to make black, however, you would mix all colors. This is because with paint, you want to stop the colors from reflecting back to the eye to achieve black. So you would use every color to absorb all wavelengths equally. To make white, no wavelength can be absorbed, so you must have no color at all.
Incidentally, the primary colors of light are red, blue, and green, while the primary "crayola" colors are red, blue, and yellow, the colors we mix to get black.

Answer 2

Black = no color
White = all colors

A white colored shirt will repel light because like-colors bounce off each other, not the other way around (like some other answerers suggest). That's why you can SEE what color the shirt is... because the light is bouncing off the shirt, back into your eyes. So a red shirt will reflect the red light, and absorb the rest. A green shirt will reflect green light, and absorb the rest.

The combination of all colors is white. Sunlight is white. That's why when you wear a white t-shirt, the sunlight bounces off your shirt and keeps you cool. A black t-shirt on the other hand will absorb all the sunlight and make you hot. Black is the absence of all color. It absorbs all the light because there's no colors for the light to bounce off of. Get it?

Answer 3

It depends on if you are talking about the color of the light itself or the color that an object appears when light bounces off of it.

If, for example, you are mixing paint the void of all colors is white and the combination of all colors is black. However, if you are talking about the light itself then black is the void of all colors (wavelengths) and white is the sum of all colors (wavelengths).

Answer 4

well I think black is the void of colors look at space if the color is white it is a star

Answer 5

Well technicaly black absorbs all light. When you see a the color black you are actualy seeing an abscence of light so it is it is void of color. Technicaly nothing has a color untill it come into contact with photons. anyhow, whats beautiful is that lets say you are looking at something of the most intense pure blue hue. What you are not seeing is the yellow and red part of the spectrum. The object you are looking at has the color that absorbs red and yellow and rejects what we call it; the color blue. Ok so we mix up all of our oil paints and we get black. How is that? Its because of a wonderful paradox. if you have your veridian and you have your Alizerine crimson, and therfore you have your reds and your blues and your yellows all mixed up together - the red we see when we mix the paint is absorbing the blues and the yellows, The blue we see when we are mixing the paint is absorbong the reds and yellows and the yellows we see when we mix up the paint absorb the blues aand the reds. They all cancel eachother out. Interesting? I say yes.

Answer 6

Black & White are not colors

Answer 7

No black absorbs all color, so that is why it is black. All the colors combined make black.

White is a color that other colors bounce off of. So there for it froms white.

Answer 8

There are 2 correct answers;
The spectral or light colors , like the rainbow or what you see when you shine light thru a prism;
then all the colors combined make WHITE(light)
With pigments, paints, or dyes the opposite is true;
mix all the colors and you get BLACK (object)

Answer 9

Yes, except when the lights are turned off. Then black is no color.

Answer 10

no..


black is the result of all colors.. and white is the void