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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>light gets absorbed and reflected depending on the color of the thing
That’s kind of backwards, it’s the inherent chemical properties of things that cause the balance of absorption and reflection of light that results in those things reflecting/emitting a spectrum of light that our brains interpret as a certain color.
Color itself isn’t exactly a property of things – a white piece of paper can still look very red if you just shine red light on it…
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