Is the color of an object same for everyone or is it just only an agreement in naming the color?
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The color which you are seeing may look differently to other person.\nIt depends on how eyes recieve the color and how the brain interprets the signals.\n\nThis is very difficult to answer. if one can be made to work with more than one brains, then probably, it can be answered correctly!!!
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What you are basically asking is what are the origins of the naming of colors.\n\nHere are a couple of interesting sites that speak to the origin of color and history of identifying etc.\n\nhttp://www.insidegraphics.com/articles/color_history_article.asp\n\nhttp://cura.free.fr/22plcome.html
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'Color' is the American way to spell it, 'Colour' is the original English English way to spell it. American's do that with other words as well, labour/labor for example. It is American's trying to simplify the language I guess.
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If there are Colours Join the Colors same to the same... Like I mean join the same colors... together...\n\nok.. i actually have no idea..\n\nMaybe it would help..
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It's kind of like the difference in the glass is half-empty or the glass is half-full. Some folks prefer to express themselves in terms of differences. Other people choose similarities. \n\nLogically if two things are the same then they have the same differences from everything that is not the objects under question. So the "same thing" must have the "same difference[s]".
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I don't think that most people would really be able to tell the difference between a dark bluish-purple from indigo...they are too similar! I have also heard that the person who constructed the visual spectrum (I can't recall who) liked to have things arrainged in a group of seven, and this may be why indigo is even listed as a color in it's own right. That's why we have Roy G. Biv: red orange, yellow, green, blue, INDIGO, and violet.
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Colors (colours) have very different meanings all around the world.  The source lists many interesting meanings.  Enjoy.
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The word 'colorblind' really means 'abnormal color vision' ... in other words the vast majority of humans fall into a certain range of color vision, and 'colorblind' people fall outside that range.\n\nSo we all can't be 'colorblind' by definition of the word 'colorblind'.\n\nAnd words like 'blue' and 'orange' are just names we give to certain experiences.  There is no way to tell if two humans actually have a different personal experience when they look at the sky ... both will point at the sky and say 'blue' ... simply by definition of the word 'blue' as "the same color as the sky."\n\nAll we can tell is that most of us will point to a sky, and the sea, and to Italy's home uniform and say they are all the same color ... a color that we were taught in childhood is named 'blue.'\n\nIn other words, all we can tell is that most of us have the same color *categories*, regardless of whether we call it 'blue' or 'azul' or 'bleen.'
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Mine is black and green.\n\nBack in the day, yellow was probably pretty cheap, so pencil companies could afford to put it on all of their products and still sell them at low prices.
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There are two aspects to color:  pigment and wavelength.  Pigment is an aspect of the object we're talking about when we say "what color is it?"  Wavelength is an aspect of light, which is made up of different wavelengths.  White light contains all the possible wavelengths.  \n\nWhen light hits pigment, some of these wavelengths are absorbed and some are reflected.  A black pigment absorbs all the wavelengths; no color is reflected, so there is the absence of color--black.  When something looks red, it is because wavelengths in the red spectrum  of light are being reflected.  \n\nThings look different in different lights because not all light is white light.  Something will look different under a light bulb than under sunlight.\n\nLisaJay\n\nhttp://www.eclecticdetective.blogspot.com
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Nothing's really color itself. colors are the reflex of light.If objects put in dark nothing can be seen even colors. \nSo if they are the reflex of it why they apear in different colors?\nWhen you look at the object that it is blue, It means that this thing can absorb other frquencys but can not absorb one frquency that shows the blue color and so on.\n\nActually objects can not absorb whole the frequencys that sun sends, the color things apeared in are the color that they can not absorb.
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They are the same colors, because they are pigments they are additive colors, so when mixed in different amounts, they create the colors you see.\nThe colors you see on the screen, are made from different amounts, of colored light, which are Blue, Green, and Red. Mixed in equal amounts, they come out as white, when disabled they come out
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paint it all the same color lol
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You can't, since it's knowledge based off of what we learn from our environment. It'd be the same as trying to describe, for example, a horse, to someone who has never seen a horse. With that example you might could give him a broad idea of what it looks like, but it would be impossible to get an accurate  and completely correct image without having actually experienced seeing one before. With colors, it's more absolute; you either know what a color looks like or you don't (unless you try to explain jungle green as a mix between forest green and dark green or something really confusing like that :-P)
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magic is magic.... \n\nIt doesn't matter if you call it 'white' or 'black' it's the same thing, it's just the intention is different.
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It depends on how one perceives colour. Some cultures only distinguish two colours, e.g. whitish and blackish, cool colours and warm colours. Most physicist see everything in terms of red or blue. I mean how do you define an indigo band? Where does this band start and stop? How would you divide up the rainbow?\nThe main reason for indigo is symmetry. Green is in the middle and Europeans have traditionally seen three colours on the red side, so three are assigned on the blue side.
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I agree that this can be subjective. For example, they say that when it comes to flowers, each color signifies a meaning. Red = Warmth & Love. White=Peace. Yellow=Jealousy. Purple= Elegance and so on. As for the colors on flags red= blood, war, violence. Green=richness. Black= courage and so forth.