(07-22-2016, 05:10 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: All I'm going to say is....no one holds a "white-tie affair"

(07-22-2016, 05:08 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Black absorbs all visible color in the spectrum  White reflects all colors in the spectrum.  In other words, black is exclusive of all colors while white is inclusive.  Or is it the reverse?


Discuss.

(07-22-2016, 10:03 AM)Nately120 Wrote: That song Ebony and Ivory is wrong. Sure, the black and white keys are side by side on his piano keyboard (oh, lord), but if you play the side by side notes it sounds lousy...no, you play them spaced out across a scale, or something, so they sound better.

Ergo, blacks and whites work better together when there is some space between. Wrong again, Sir Paul!

(07-22-2016, 11:12 AM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: Black is every color
White is the lack of color

Find a color scale on the web, one where you can can enter 0-255 in each primary color. Put 255 in each one and you have black. Put 0 in each one and you get white.

That's all, nothing else.

(07-22-2016, 11:12 AM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: Black is every color
White is the lack of color

Find a color scale on the web, one where you can can enter 0-255 in each primary color. Put 255 in each one and you have black. Put 0 in each one and you get white.

That's all, nothing else.

As for people, are we not all the same?
We bleed red blood
We breath the same air
Drink the same water that has been here since the earth was made
Our parts are interchangeable
We can breed with each other 

Wait...is this a troll thread?

(07-22-2016, 11:17 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I disagree. The ability for us to see a color is based on the light spectrum that is reflected back at us and picked up by the rods and cones in our eyes and then translated by the brain. Colors will absorb certain wavelengths and reflect others resulting in their specific color. So what is reflected is what our brain translates into color. White reflects all wavelengths, meaning it is all colors. Black reflects none, so it is the absence of color.

(07-22-2016, 11:36 AM)SteelCitySouth Wrote: He is correct when mixing pigment, he is wrong when mixing light.

When mixing pigment you want to combine all of the primary colors of pigment.  Red Yellow Blue  White is the absence of pigment

When mixing light to get white you combine all of the primary colors of light.  Red Green Blue  Black is the absence of light

(07-22-2016, 11:46 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: But what allows you to see the colors of the pigments is the way they absorb/reflect light. So light trumps all.

(07-22-2016, 11:56 AM)SteelCitySouth Wrote: It doesn't trump all otherwise you'd be a fool when attempting to paint something or even hold a conversation with a person that works with any pigment medium.  It completely depends on what medium we are speaking about.  So like I said, he is correct when speaking about the medium of pigment, he is incorrect when speaking on the medium of light.

It could easily be argued that it is the pigment that trumps all as it is the medium in which light is augmented and reflected back to you.

(07-22-2016, 12:07 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: But what allows you to see what color the pigment is?

(07-22-2016, 10:03 AM)Nately120 Wrote: Ergo, blacks and whites work better together when there is some space between.  Wrong again, Sir Paul!

(07-22-2016, 12:14 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I was taught in the one room school house in KY that white absorbs all light and black reflects it. This is why something black is hotter to the touch than something white while exposed to a light/heat source (day time), but the white thing will stay warmer when removed from the souce.

(07-22-2016, 12:14 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I was taught in the one room school house in KY that white absorbs all light and black reflects it. This is why something black is hotter to the touch than something white while exposed to a light/heat source (day time), but the white thing will stay warmer when removed from the souce.

(07-22-2016, 12:07 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: But what allows you to see what color the pigment is?