the_dengle on 17 November 2014
| the-pi-guy said: |
So "black" as we use it is actually a misnomer, because it isn't truly black at all. In order for us to see it, it must reflect some small, tiny amount of light, which would make it definitively not black. Visible blackness (an oxymoron) reflects an amount of light so minimal that you perceive it as the absence of light entirely, when it is simply very, very, very dark grey.
I would say that 'greys' as a group are a curve approaching an asymptote -- black -- as they grow darker. So the "color" we call "black" is actually just the darkest possible grey we can create or perceive.
