Re: Favourite colour

Matt Marsh <matt-ko/[email protected]> Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:13:27 +0100

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Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2005, at 10:27 , Tim Hicks wrote:
> 
>> Look, if black and white aren't colours - what are they?
> 
> 
> Black absorbs all and white reflects all. They aren't really colours  
> then, right? ;)

According to [1]Wikipedia:

"Some examples of necessarily non-spectral colors are the achromatic 
colors (black, gray and white)..."

therefore implying that they are colours.

Matt

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour

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