Oh, if anyone reads this and wonders what in the fuzzy is going on in the three entries below, CrossgunMan and I are having a little disagreement. Safe to say people like him suck the joy outta fanart, no?
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Re: Black is the absence of color
Posted by Sincere on Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:16:15.For the eye to perceive an object as white, the object
must reflect all colors (or close to). A surface capable of reflecting all colors must be void in color itself, any color would hinder all color light to be reflected and thus would not create white perceived by our eye's. In respect to this it would be possible to create 100% black only with a surface containing all colors; this being the only way to prevent any color from being reflected back to the beholder. Most easily made mistake is to relate the concept of dark being the absence of light. This is correct, yet understand that in complete dark (the absence of light)our eyes could not perceive white or black simply because no light is present to be reflected off a "white" or "black" object and be received by our eye's. With that said it can be understood that rationally the only way possible to create a visual hue considered black would be to have all hues present which causes the affect our eyes "perceive" as an absence simply because humans relate it what they believe as a similar occurrence the absence of light,[incorrect considering the very fundamental necessity of color is light]. light of course does contain all colors which why when passed thru a prism would create all colors. Colors we see our simply a degree of how much of this color present in light is reflected. So does it not seem correct or plausible to believe that the only matter in which to obtain "white" is to have a surface with such complete reflection that every color is reflected and seen. What color is a mirror. We see all colors yet a mirror contains none, and we see all colors only because it contains none. It is this complete absence of color in a mirror or "white" which enables a surface to be completely reflective . It is this concept where the conflict lies, to see all colors in a surface none must be present, yet to perceive no color at all, all must be present. If we can put a black object in a mirror and see it's reflection as it really is then why can we not see the reflection of a mirror in a black object, even the light reflected off the mirror would be absorbed into the black object, not because it contains no color to reflect it contains too much to be reflective. So what color is a mirror, it's none; exactly.
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Factors effecting the perception of colour
There are a number of other circumstantial and environmental factors, which impact how the eye perceives light and colour.
They include:Colour temperature (light intensity) Metamerism Surrounding colour http://authors.elsevier.com/ArtworkInstructions.html?dc=AI11 If you were to turn off the room lights for a moment and then cover all the windows with black construction paper to prevent any entry of light into the room, then you would notice that nothing in the room would be visible. There would be objects present that were capable of being seen. There would be eyes present which would be capable of detecting light from those objects. There would be a brain present which would be capable of deciphering the information sent to it. But there would be no light! The room and everything in it would look black. The appearance of black is merely a sign of the absence of light. When a room full of objects (or a table, a shirt or a sky) looks black, then the objects are not generating nor reflecting light to your eyes. And without light, there would be no sight. http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/CLASS/refln/u13l1a.html
And finally:
Color or lightBlack can be defined as the visual impression experienced in directions from which no visible light reaches the eye. (This makes a contrast with whiteness, the impression of any combination of colors of light that equally stimulates all three types of colour-sensitive visual receptors.)Pigments that absorb light rather than reflect it back to the eye "look black". A black pigment can, however, result from a combination of several pigments that collectively absorb all colours. If appropriate proportions of three primary pigments are mixed, the result reflects so little light as to be called "black".This provides two superficially opposite but actually complementary descriptions of black. Black is the lack of all colours of light, or an exhaustive combination of multiple colors of pigment. See also Primary colors
† various CMYK combinationscmyk0%0%0%100%(canonical)100%100%100%0%(ideal inks, theoretical only)100%100%100%100%(registration black)In physics, a black body is a perfect absorber of light, but by a rule derived by Einstein it is also, when heated, the best emitter. Thus, the best radiative cooling, out of sunlight, is by using black paint, though it is important that it be black (a nearly perfect absorber) in the infrared as well.In elementary science far Ultraviolet light is called "black light" because, unseen (per se), it causes many minerals and other substances to fluoresce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black Just for your knowledge, I am a senior art major on full scholarship at a major liberal arts college. I just draw fanart for fun. I sell my work. How about you?
I think I’d pass out if I ever got a look from those two like that! I like that you chose to go with Vash’s dark under side hair look from the Manga. I’ve always like that look a bit more that the one from the anime. You never fail me when it comes to awesome color!