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| > | > Think of it this was, the color black, is simply the absence of
| > | > color, the absence of light. A dark fic is similar, being an absence
| > | of something even more important... hope.

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| > | White is the color that is the absence of all the other colors.
| > | Black is the mixer of all the colors put together.

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| > While black PAINT may be prepared from a mix of red, yellow, and blue
| > pigments, it is white LIGHT that you get from combining the beams from
| > green, red, and blue spotlights. Or, to put it more concisely, when
| you are
| > in a cave and your torch goes out, or when you enter a darkened
| room, and
| > there is no light of any color whatsoever... do you see black or
| white?

<selective snippo numero quatro - god I love Macho Caballo>

|  I will first say in my defense that I did check my facts before
| posting to the FFML by using Merriam Wedster's Collegiate Dictionary
| Tenth Edition. When I used the words black and white. Did I use the
| word paint. No I did not.

Bear with me, folks, the Science Guy has been awakened and he's peeved.

The only true measure of color is wavelength of light. The three primary
colors of light are red, green, and blue. That's why tweaking the "tint"
button on your TV makes the picture redder or greener, rather than, say,
redder or yellower. That's also why HTML color codes involve values for the
intensity of red, green, and blue. When you mix red and green light, you get
yellow light. I've seen it happen. Heck, I've DONE it.

Now, red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors of pigments. Not of light.
What we see as red, yellow, and blue are actually reflections of all
wavelengths of light but green, blue, and red, respectively. Absorptive
color, such as that found in paint, does indeed have white as the absence of
absorptive pigments and black as the presence of all absorptive pigments.
That's the idea you had in mind, and the idea I corrected to Keener's
original vision. White is the presence of all wavelengths of light, black
the absence of any visible wavelengths. Such was Keener's working
definition.

It just pains me to see someone shoot down a beautiful analogy because of
some inapplicable facts. That's why I posted the original...

--G. Falconar, thinking otaku