If black the absense of color?

Question

If it is, how come you you get black if you mix all the colors together? Also, it cannot be white because white is made up of many other colors(spectrum). Anyone know what the true absense of color is?

Answer 1

the absence of color is black

there are two ways that this is looked at, light and reflection

paints reflect ammounts of light, like a blue paint would only reflect the spectrum of light that is blue and would absorb the rest, and a black paint would absorb all color. White would reflect all color.

Answer 2

Black is the absence of color due to how your eyes perceive the color itself. It has nothing to do about how the color is made on paper. It's all about light. Light reflects off of white with all the colors of the spectrum. White is very reflective because of this. Black, on the other hand, does not reflect any color of the visible light spectrum. It's like a dark void, so your eye turns it into black.

An easier example, take red. As the rays of visible light (ROYGBIV) hit your red shirt, the red color soaks up orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, and it reflects back to your eye longer wave patterns. Long wave patterns are translated into the color red by your eyes. Shorter wave patterns are translated into the color violet. Black transmits no waves, so that is what it means to be the absence of color.

Answer 3

It all boils down to what happens when light strikes a colored surface.

It is true that white light is a combination of a wide spectrum of colors. When white light hits red paint, the paint absorbs the green-violet part of the light, leaving a lot of red light to reflect - which makes it look red. When white light hits green paint, that paint absorbs the red light, making the paint look green. If you mix a bunch of different paint together, it can now absorb all the light, leaving nothing to reflect, and it will look black.

Absence of color is absence of light. Black.

Answer 4

True black absorbs all colors (light) and doesn't reflect any so it is known as 'the absence of color' because we cannot see them. The black that we see and call 'black' isn't actually a color, it's a neutral. When you mix all those colors together (like when you mix paint), you aren't really getting black, it just a very dark mix of colors. We call it 'black' but it's really not.

Answer 5

"Colors would not be possible without light because color is, in essence, light either reflected off of objects we see or viewed directly from the light source."

"Black is the absence of light and therefore the absence of color."

Answer 6

Yes balck is the absence of color. Paint is diffrent than light and so it does not work the same.