Why is it so easy to define colors like red, blue and green by

There is a definition for white. White is racist.

>>8298792
Did you think your question is so interesting it had to be cross-posted? >>>/g/56273385

Also, see >>>/g/56274097

>>8298880
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>>8298792
White isn't a color. It is a value.

>>8298792
Because white is the absence/presence of all colors depending.

>>8299999
Chekd

>>8298792
White is just what your brain shows you when seeing all/most visible wavelengths at once

>>8299999
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>>8300091
Wrong.

You can consider white as all wavelengths combined, or a property that an object which aborts no wavelengths has.

>>8298792
White = infinite qualia
Black = 0 qualia
Magenta = -1/12 qualia

Source: https://www.google.co.uk/?q=-1%2F12

>>8298792
There is. White is defined as #FFFFFF

>>8298792
White light is a combination of all colors together. Think of it this way. A violinist can play a single note, a single wavelength of sound, analogous to a single color like red at a wavelength 650nm. On the other hand you can have 100 violinists all playing different notes, a combination of a huge amount of different wavelengths. This would be like white light, a combination of all different types of wavelengths. Pure white light includes all wavelengths of visible light, certainly more than a 100 as in the example.


This should not be confused with white paint which the absence of colors being mixed with one another. Thus the paint does not absorb any colors and reflects every single wavelength that is incident on it.
So while white is considered a color just like red, blue or pink in pop culture, in terms of physics red and white are not at all similar.