Was wondering because black and darkness is different from each other as darkness is gone when light is present but black remains.
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black is the absense of light. A paint that appears black does so because it absorbs all (or almost all) of the light that hits it.
Black is not a color per se. Black is the absence of light.
The colors we see is our brain interpreting different wavelengths of light in the form of images. When we see an absence of light, our brain interprets this as black.
Therefore, I think it’s safe to assume that black is not a color of light, but instead a measure of little to no brightness.
As u/cannabination said, black is the combination of all colors. ROYGBIV, or the rainbow, is the separation of color so you won’t find black in the rainbow.
If white light is all the colors on the spectrum, obviously Black is the absence of color. So how do we have Black as a color (dye)? Well its actually another color just heavily saturated to look Black. A good example is with your shirts, if you put bleach on a Black shirt it turns blue or red. Thats because the color Black is actually on of those just to an extreme to seem darker than it really is.
It isn’t. Imagine a transparent film of each of those seven colors. If you stacked them it would approximate what black is.
Based on the comments, my conclusion is that when all colors are reflected, white is made while black is created when all colors are absorbed?
>Where is black in ROYGBIV?
It’s not in the spectrum. OR: It’s on a different axis. As you go through the spectrum, you change frequency. But 90 degrees to that and entirely unrelated, is **intensity**. Any color with a lot of intensity is bright. Any color without intensity fades to black.
>Was wondering because black and darkness is different from each other as darkness is gone when light is present but black remains.
Wut? When you shine light on a black surface, it aborbs all that light and reflect none back. If it’s not a perfect black, it’ll reflect some back and you see various shades of grey.
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