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it depends on what you are talking about. If you are talking about relating certain shapes, letters or months to colors, then you most likely have Synesthesia. If you are talking about physical colors, such as a pink shirt or a brown building, it is because of the reflection of light. Sunlight and most artificial lights are white, in other words, every color in the rainbow combined. Certain natural ad artificial dyes will reflect certain shades of that rainbow, and absorb the others. What we see is the reflection. So if a pair of jeans appears to be blue, then what you are looking at is the reflection of the color blue from the light emmited from whatever luminescent thing is shining upon it.
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Why do you see objects and their color?
You see objects because visible light( a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum) is reflected off the surface of something into your eye. All different colors have a different wavelength which defines their frequency. When you see a red object, that object is absorbing all the colors except for red which is then reflected into your eye.
Why is the sun attracted to dark colors?
The question is a little off. Sunlight isn't 'attracted' to anything, in the sense that light 'wants to move toward' certain colors. But when light shines on objects of different colors, different parts of the light are reflected off of the objects and absorbed by the objects. An object that is close to a very pure white color will reflect most of the light that shines on it; an object that is close to a very pure black color will absorb most of the light that shines on it, and so will absorb more energy.
What causes the apparent colors of the objects we see?
What we perceive as color is specific wavelengths of light. Objects either emit or reflect light. Again depending on which wavelengths are either emitted or reflected is the color(s) we see. In emitted colors, a given source emits light. If all wavelengths are emitted then what we see is white. The object may emit specific wavelengths of light or it may use some sort of filter that allows only specific wavelengths to pass through and blocks all others. In reflected colors. the object or pigments of or on an object absorb all light wavelengths except certain ones. Those that are not trapped and are reflected or refracted back (as in the case of rainbows) we perceive as color(s).
How do you we see non luminous objects?
We see object from the light they either produce or reflect. The Sun gives off light waves. An object absorbs all colors but what you see. The reflected light then travels to your eyes where it is interpreted.
Why do CDs reflect rainbow colors?
Like water drops in falling rain, the CD separates white light into all the colors that make it up. The colors you see reflecting from a CD are interference colors, like the shifting colors you see on a soap bubble or an oil slick. You can think of light as as being made up of waves-like the waves in the ocean. When light waves reflect off the ridges on your CD, they overlap and interfere with each other. Sometimes the waves add together, making certain colors brighter, and sometimes they cancel each other, taking certain colors away.
What process produces different colors we see in opaque objects?
what processes produce the different colors we see in opaque objects
What is it called when you cant see only certain colors?
I'm pretty sure that is is color blindness to certain colors which makes it so you can only see certain colors.
What objects are made up of all the colors of the rainbow?
Every thing. some objects reflect some colors(the colors that we see) and absorb all others(the ones we don't see). the colors that are reflected and blend to make all the different colors.
Why are things certain colours?
The color of an object is determined by the color/s that it reflects. All other colors are absorbed. White objects reflect all colors, and black objects do not reflect any colors.
Why do you see objects as different colors when light shines on them?
Because certain objects can absorb specific wavelengths of light(color) and they reflect the waves that they cannot absorb. the reflected wave of light is the visible color of the object.
Why do you see objects as different colors when light is shining on them?
Because certain objects can absorb specific wavelengths of light(color) and they reflect the waves that they cannot absorb. the reflected wave of light is the visible color of the object.
What causes the apparent colors of the objects you see?
i think the answer is b
Why did Picasso use the certain colors in the jug with apples?
Because that what the colours of those objects were.
What colors do white objects absorb?
White is the resultant of all colors being reflected. White objects of course absorb some light but due reflect all the colors of the rainbow as we see them.
Are harvester ants color blind?
Ants are not color blind. They may not be able to see colors as sharply as humans, but see the colors of objects.
Why do see certain colors?
Does not compute please ask again
How did scientist prove pigeons can see the same colors we can?
I'm pretty sure that they trained them to go towards certain colors and if they can do that they see colors like us. P.S. I'm not positive about it though
