• TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
    Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
    Join free Log in
    Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.

Black

beaglesandbass

beaglesandbass

Anti-Tort Activist
Staff member
Gold Supporting Member
Supporting Member
Aug 14, 2001
14,767
19,407
Philly Suburbs
#1
Ok, i know it can only be on or the other.

but what is black?

science says that it is the absense of color

but when you color in a circle with all the other magic markers. they make black... which would mean it is a combination of all the colors.

so which is it?
 
#3
Pigments and light are different and you need to think about them that way.

When talking about light, white is a combination of all the wavelengths of visible light, and black is the absence of visible light. by combining the right balanced light sources you can create white light, and by shutting them all off, you get black.

Pigments (in markers etc) are actually particles that absorb certian frequencies of light and reflect others. White pigments reflect all the visible frequencies of light in the same proprtion and thus act as a source of all the visible wavelengths of light. Blue pigments absorb red and yellow wavelengths of light and only reflect blue, red pigments absorb blue and yellow and only reflect red, yellow follows the same patern. If you mix the three, then you have a combination of pigments which absorbs all the visible colors and thus doesnt reflect any visible light, therefore, the absence of light (color) idea still applies.
 
#11
jenderfazz said:
Additive/Subtractive colors. Basically, when you put multiple paint colors together they make black. However, when you put all colors of light together, they make white. I can't remember which is which (additive/subtractive).
Click to expand...
Subtractive is the paint one. Additive is the light one. And that's exactly why black is both all the colors combined with paint yet no light reflected back.
 
#16
The Antipop said:
that makes me think of "Tour of Duty"
Click to expand...
That was the BEST show! A few years ago they were running it in order on TNT during the day. I was off work from a back injury and got to see most of it. They took out all the real music and replaced it with "60's-ish" generic stuff to avoid paying the royalties- with the exception of the theme song- Paint It Black- replaced with some generic synthesizer music; sorta sounded like the ER theme.
TODDVD1.jpg




Maybe markers simulate black. Sort of like "Artificial Colors and Sweetening."
 
#18
The Golden Boy said:
That was the BEST show! A few years ago they were running it in order on TNT during the day. I was off work from a back injury and got to see most of it. They took out all the real music and replaced it with "60's-ish" generic stuff to avoid paying the royalties- with the exception of the theme song- Paint It Black- replaced with some generic synthesizer music; sorta sounded like the ER theme.
TODDVD1.jpg




Maybe markers simulate black. Sort of like "Artificial Colors and Sweetening."
Click to expand...

That is going to be on the xmas list for sure (if I can wait that long?)
 

Latest posts

Top Bottom
Back