If white is combined from 7 colors, black is combined from what?

Answer 1

True black is the absence of colour.

Edit: I had to take a lie detector test once. The guy held up a "black" piece of paper and asked if the paper was black. I said "no" and it recorded me as telling the truth and he couldn't figure out why.

BTW people, you don't need to say the absence of colour (color) AND light. Light is made up of colour, so you're being redundant mentioning it as well.

Answer 2

There are two ways to look at this. As far as light goes, black is the absence of color. As far as pigmentation goes, black is the presence of all colors. The reason is because of what light actually gets to the eye. All projected light that gets to the eye is treated the same as reflected light. The difference is the content of the projected and reflected light. Projected light having all colors is white. Something that absorbs all colors will reflect none of them. No reflected light is the color black. The absence of projected light is seen as the same as the absence of reflected light, black. If all light is reflected, then no pigmentation absorbs any frequency of light. It is seen as white. It's a matter of what gets to the eye.
Put another way, it's a matter of whether the light is projected or reflected.

Answer 3

White is light combined of six(?)colour frequencies: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet and when all are reflected from a surface, we see that as being white. When the same six colours are absorbed by the surface and none are reflected, we see this surface as black.

Answer 4

White is all colors of light waves combined. Black is all pigment colors combined, which is why it absorbs all wavelengths.

Answer 5

Hello =)

White is the combination of the 7 colours of light, in equal proportions..... Black is the relative absence of light...

If one were to mix the 7 colours of paint, that one finds in the rainbow, one gets black paint, and not white....but, if one were to paint equal sections of a wheel each a different colour of the rainbow, and spin it very fast, one would see white.

fascinating, isn't it??

It all has to do with the fact that each colour of the spectrum reflects one colour, and absorbs all the others......

When you mix the colours of paint, you end up with a paint that absorbs all the colours, and reflects no colours.....hence it appears black....

Namaste,

--Tom

Answer 6

red, green and blue (mix it myself in my painting class) and white is not from 7 colors its made from all the colors

Answer 7

All answers so far have been correct... Black is void of all color.

Answer 8

black is the absence of light or color.

Answer 9

black is tha absence of color

Answer 10

no colors it reflects nothing but absorbs everythin