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Colors are waves of light that bounce off on an Object and hit you're Eye. you can best describe colors by Red, Orange, and Yellow colors- and all tones inbetween- have a Warm feeling to them.
and Greens Blues and Purples- all have a Cool feeling connected with them. Blacks Whites and Grays are all inbetween-
Not sure if that answers you're question- I had more I planned on writing down but Im in a hurry.
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It's another way that we can distinguish otherwise identical objects, based on our sense of sight. Objects of different colors do not usually look like a different shape, but they are very distinguishable.

Colors are what are eyes use to make things less dull. We make somethings so colorfull, that we become overjoyed. And they are typically a combo of black + white + gray, Gray+ A naturall color like green = forest green.

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ok. having thought about it as deeply as i can, i have some ideas. maybe you won't hate them all ( :

first of all, some critters can see light in the infrared frequency range and some can see in the ultraviolet, neither of which humans can do at present. do those critters see 'extra' colors beyond ROY G BIV, or do they only see ROY G BIV shifted in their direction or maybe even spread out over a wider range of frequencies compared to us? i don't see how to answer this question by any experiment, but the idea itself raises the possibility that what we call orange or purple or whatever is not strictly associated with a specific frequency range, which i find interesting as an idea itself.

it also raises the possibility that colors can only be described relative to each other. for example, green is the color that is simultaneously most like yellow and blue. orange is the color that is simultaneously most like yellow and red. of course it doesn't answer the original question absolutely.

why we see red as red (if indeed we all do, certainly an open question) may have everything or nothing to do with how brains came to work over millions of years. red is a perception of the lowest-energy electronic transitions, while violet relates to the highest-energy electronic transitions that we can see. we might then expect these two colors to be the most different from each other, but that's not how they look to me. yellow and green look pretty different from each other, at least to me, and they correspond to very similar-energy transitions. i know what red looks like only because someone told me as a child which color is red, as with all the other colors.

the brain is made mostly of water and protein, and yours and mine have very much the same basic structure, so if 'redness' is only a way of perceiving the lowest-energy transitions, it wouldn't be surprising if it turns out that we all see it the same. and if we do all see it the same, then redness may be the result of a shared perceptual phenomenon that links physics to whatever consciousness is. unfortunately, we'd probably need to understand consciousness and perception a lot better than we do in order to test that idea.

and if we don't all see it the same, that would be even more interesting.

well that's a very interesting offer. let me think on it until tomorrow afternoon. my guess is that orange, or purple, etc., can be explained. i'd start with the premise that everyone sees the same color as blue that we call blue (except the colorblind), and if that's so, then there's a reason that we do. what might the reason be, or for orange being orange, etc? of course my premise may be false, and it would be just as interesting if we could establish that. of course these are old questions, but we are fresh minds full of the arrogance of memers. i like our chances ( :

well, light is waves, and we have specific sensors that can detect these waves and the length of them, allowing us to see the waves

i know the theory but that's not what he said he was asking

Light is electromagnetic radiation. light has different wavelengths, certain wavelengths are visible to humans whilst others are not. An example would be the ultraviolet spectrum, it is wavelength of light and humans cannot see it, this is due to it’s very short wavelength, another example is the light we can see, it takes up a very small part of the spectrum this part of the spectrum we can see is color. To conclude color is simply the light we can see.

I forgot to add that objects are denoted their color by absorption of every color of the visible spectrum except for the one the object is perceived to be.

it's what happens when a wavelength of light (UV I think?) bounces off an object, and when it enters through our lenses, our eye interprets it as color, and sends the signal to the brain, and we see color

colorblindness comes from an issue in the part of the eye that interprets the color

so, color is in the eye of the perceiver

Not UV, that is a different zone on the light spectrum, you are talking about visible light, which falls in between UV and IR, but otherwise, yes, that is correct.

lol, yeah, I wasn't entirely sure

ik the science behind colors but what I meant was for example describe blue( and not like "the shy is that color)

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cold lol, that's all I've got

The frequency of the light that is bounced off of certain surfaces whilst other frequencies are mainly absorbed

Where do I start? I guess in that something we perceive as a certain color is actually anything but that color, absorbing light of all wavelengths of "colors" except for the one we perceive it to be. A red apple absorbs all light spectrums except red, which it reflects, and that's why we see it that way. If you want me to go deeper than that we'll have to get into quantum physics, which I haven't studied in quite a while so if you want to go there be prepared for the layman's perspective, lol.

sorry for not stating the question well. I know that science of colors, but what i meant was describe a color like orange or purple any color