How does color work. I know how light gets absorbed and reflected depending on the color of the thing, but that does not explain HOW things have color.
Like. I can have a red house, red clothes and my blood is red. But all those things are VERY different things. What properties do all of them have that makes them red? How does my red look red ? Molecules? And we can mix colors too. What specificly is mixed?
What quality in red paint is also present in my blood?
I am not the best at explaining, but what I want to know is what do same colored things have in common that makes us see them as the same color despite being very different kinds of things.
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>How does color work. I know how light gets absorbed and reflected depending on the color of the thing, but that does not explain HOW things have color.
This is where you’re wrong. Things do not have colour at all. Light typically posses multiple wavelengths of light in the visible spectrum. Certain objects absorb certain wavelengths while reflecting others, in essence removing certain colors of light. The resultant wavelengths that DO reflect are perceived by the eyes and translated into color by the brain. Simple as that.
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