+540 Isn't black technically the most colorful? it is composed of all colors, amirite?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Why would combining all the colors make the most beautiful color?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

i never said it was beautiful. i said it was the most colorful.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

You did! My bad. In that case, I would have to question what your definition of colorful is.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

colorful as in having the most color. whether or not the colors are entirely visible.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Well I don't think any color contains more color than another color. In other words, colors on either side of the spectrum have equal amounts of color, they just interact with your eyes differently. The definition of "colorful" is "striking with color". Using that definition, I think most people wouldn't call black the most striking, because even though it's a mixture of all the colors, you can't see each individual one.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

true. i still think it is, but i won't argue with you.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Well, when referring to light, black is an absence of color. But when dealing with pigment, it is all colors. Just saying

by Anonymous 14 years ago

If you look at a triangular prism with a beam of white light shining into it, red, blue, and yellow will exit the other side. Black is the absence, white is a composure of the three main ones which make up the others.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Yes, but when you aren't referring to light, and you are talking about pigment (paint, crayons, etc.) then a mixture of all colors makes a black color.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

If you try that, you're probably going to get closer to a dark, mucky brown.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Then how do you explain black paint?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

How do YOU explain white paint?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

No pigment in the fluid. Thus no color. So it's white.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Ok, I admit defeat on this count... The post never specifies what was meant, so I thought I was helping your post about the light aspect.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

yeah, the whole reason i said the pigment thing anyway was incase anyone got confused :s

by Anonymous 14 years ago

No problem! I understand. I woulda done the same thing... I HAVE done the same thing! XD

by Anonymous 14 years ago

White is composed of all colors. Black is the absence of color.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I was going on here to say that. :-) Great minds think alike.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Actually, as the person above you said, this is only the case with light. With pigment, black is composed of many colors.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

exactly what i was going to say. Artistically speaking, white is the absence of color and black is the absence of light. Even though it's really the oposite when you're actually referring to light.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Is the word colour starting to sound weird to anyone else?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

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by Anonymous 14 years ago

Oddly, no, not this time. That usually does happen though.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Like a few others on here said Black is the absence of color. Your a moron.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

YOU'RE a moron too(:

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Zing! :D

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Yeah dude, white is all the colors! Black is the absence of color. Wikipedia that shit.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

If you'd read Wikipedia carefully, you'd see that this is only the case with light, and not with pigment.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

White is composed of all colours, black is absence of colours

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Honestly who tought you guys art? White is composed of all colours, black is the absence of all colours.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I like how everyone who commented failed to read before they posted. Sure does help your case when you're calling people retards, when what you've said has already been said, and it's also 50% wrong. Sure are smart people here...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

retard. black is a tone, not a colour.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

actually white is composed of all the colors, black is a tone

by Anonymous 14 years ago

The art debate is ridiculous..

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Pickles.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

think of it this way light composes everything we see so even with black pigmentation being composed of all colors the light doesnt refract from it making it the absence of light or absence of all colors not the presence of all colors

by Anonymous 14 years ago

wouldn't that make brown?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Actually black is the absence of LIGHT, not color. You can't make a true black with colors just a really really dark shade of another color. White is all colors. You can't make white with other colors though because what you see is the colors that the object is reflecting off of it. So by mixing all of the colors you wouldn't make white because then the object is reflecting all the colors back at your eyes making you see dark brown.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Black isn't colorful. It absorbs all light, therefore emitting no color at all. White is actually the most coloful.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

um that would be brown..black is a negative!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

i thought white was the mixture of all colors, or the three main ones...or something...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

totallyawesomesomeginger, you're right. black isn't considered a color, because it's none of the colors white is all of the colors combined, geniuses.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

actually white is the mixture of all colors black is the absence of color

by Anonymous 14 years ago

here is a great idea, read the comments. you'll see that a lot of people say that. so don't repeat it. especially as anon.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

First of all, pick a way to spell colour (with or without the u). Second of all, no, black is NOT all colours, it is the absence of colour...

by Anonymous 14 years ago