The impossible question

[Evilvikingking]

Can you do it?

Describe any colour...

Cookie for whoever comes up with a good one. And that doesn't include false wit.

 

[Lukeje]

450nm.

 

[Resistance205]

The colour black, is like nothing. It is darkness, nothing. You can't even see it.

Or something like that, it's extremely hard to answer.

 

[Monocle Man]

Green = right after you vomit, the horrible taste, the awful feeling, the mess around you
Brown = You forgot to flush the toilet 24 hours ago, you are now back in the bathroom
Pink = Toys for little girls

Can't seem to find anything for the other colours.

 

[Evilvikingking]

The colour black, is like nothing. It is darkness, nothing. You can't even see it.

Or something like that, it's extremely hard to answer.

The absence of colour or light. xD

 

[Time Travelling Toaster]

The colour orange is created by a surface having the correct reflective surface to absorb all blue/green light and reflect slightly more red light than yellow light creating the colour we have come to know as orange.

How'd I do ?

 

[Evilvikingking]

No. You described how you see it. You didn't describe what it looks like.

No cookie for you, sir!

 

[Merteg]

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625?740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared (below red), and cannot be seen by the naked human eye. Red is used as one of the additive primary colors of light, complementary to cyan, in RGB color systems. Red is also one of the subtractive primary colors of RYB color space but not CMYK color space.

In human color psychology, red is associated with heat, energy, and blood, and emotions that "stir the blood", including anger, passion, and love.

 

[Time Travelling Toaster]

No. You described how you see it. You didn't describe what it looks like.

If how you see it isn't what it looks like then is nothing the same as the way we see it ?

Edit: Confused myself there never mind, but still you said describe the colour and I described what it is, unless you meant what it meant when I seen it ? Then I concur and orange is happyness to me

 

[Fingerprint]

A frequency of light that is interpreted in the retina of the eye and given a name though language.

Does that count?

 

[Gooble]

Black-the main colour when you shut your eyes

 

[Evilvikingking]

No. You described how you see it. You didn't describe what it looks like.

If how you see it isn't what it looks like then is nothing the same as the way we see it ?

Hence the difficulty of figuring it out, friend. xD

 

[Evilvikingking]

Let me elaborate...

Don't describe colour in general. Pick a colour, then describe what it looks like.

 

[Merteg]

Let me elaborate...

Don't describe colour in general. Pick a colour, then describe what it looks like.

Blue=

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440?490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal mixture of red and green light. On a colour wheel based on traditional colour theory (RYB), the complementary colour to blue is considered to be orange (based on the Munsell colour wheel). The English language commonly uses "blue" to refer to any colour from navy blue to cyan. The word itself is derived from the Old French word bleu.

 

[jacobschndr]

Blue looks like relaxation, calm or peace
Red looks mad and evil
Green looks young and fresh, untamed
All other colors are a mix of some degree between those three original colors.
Black and white are not colors at all, but are neutral so they don't count.
Nuff said.

 

[Time Travelling Toaster]

No. You described how you see it. You didn't describe what it looks like.

If how you see it isn't what it looks like then is nothing the same as the way we see it ?

Hence the difficulty of figuring it out, friend. xD

You have broke my sense of working out what is real Do I get into the Matrix now ?

 

[Evilvikingking]

No. You described how you see it. You didn't describe what it looks like.

If how you see it isn't what it looks like then is nothing the same as the way we see it ?

Hence the difficulty of figuring it out, friend. xD

You have broke my sense of working out what is real Do I get into the Matrix now ?

YES!!

 

[Evilvikingking]

Let me elaborate...

Don't describe colour in general. Pick a colour, then describe what it looks like.

Blue=

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440?490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal mixture of red and green light. On a colour wheel based on traditional colour theory (RYB), the complementary colour to blue is considered to be orange (based on the Munsell colour wheel). The English language commonly uses "blue" to refer to any colour from navy blue to cyan. The word itself is derived from the Old French word bleu.

Thats great mr physics man! Now how is a blind man gonna know what you're talking about. Thats a description of the colour blue, not what it looks like.

...Half a cookie! xD

 

[Merteg]

Let me elaborate...

Don't describe colour in general. Pick a colour, then describe what it looks like.

Blue=

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440?490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal mixture of red and green light. On a colour wheel based on traditional colour theory (RYB), the complementary colour to blue is considered to be orange (based on the Munsell colour wheel). The English language commonly uses "blue" to refer to any colour from navy blue to cyan. The word itself is derived from the Old French word bleu.

Thats great mr physics man! Now how is a blind man gonna know what you're talking about. Thats a description of the colour blue, not what it looks like.

...Half a cookie! xD

The only way you can describe blue (a cool color) to the blind is by giving them something warm to hold and let them feel it for 10 seconds, and then give them something cool (not cold) to hold. You'd be amazed how they can relate to that. I have seen this done and the teacher doing it took something hot and put it in the blind person's hand (and said that's red!) and then put ice in their hands and said "that cold colors and snow." The person could relate to a point. Blind people will never truly know the colors we do, but they can imagine by touch.

 

[Iron Mal]

A colour is an interpritation of the light coming from an object, the description of what a colour looks like, however, is a subjective opinion for which there is no correct answer (the only accurate description of a colour is itself or an object that shares the same colour, the former of which is circular logic and the latter is only a comparison, not a definition).

In short, you have asked a question that has no real, objective answer (which by definition is a rhetorical question and thus requires no answer).