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The Negative Colors

Farokh Shahabi Nezhad – February 2013

 But what if we change the source of light? Will the colors be

Abstract— we all know the colors, red, green, etc. But what if the same? We have two common source of light: The Sun and
we have more colors than the ones we see every day? We electricity. The second one made by us and it’s very similar to
want to discuss those colors. From now on we just simply the sun. (Consider common lamps that we use every day at our
explore some very simple facts (that we all know already) and homes and consider similarity of their lights). With them the
then come with some results. colors are almost same as with the sun as source. But when we
I just want one thing from you: Open your mind. We use an unusual source, like a powerful red light, the colors will
ultimately will answer this: What is the color of anything change.
without light? You all know this, this is not a new thing, and this trick is
wildly used in theater to hide something from your eyes.
So colors are themselves constants, on a specific source of
I. INTRODUCTION light. If we change that, we have still constant colors that may
be vary from other sources.
L ets read some well-known facts together. These simple
facts will help us with the understanding of the idea and
what it is all about.
Fact 5:
Let’s dig in digital world. Computers know lights and they
show them to us. We won’t explain the whole system, just a
Fact 1: Glance.
How we can see anything? Light hits the surface and then We can see all lights that we can see normally with just three
reflects, that reflection reaches our eyes and then we see primary ones: Red, Green and Blue.
objects. The other lights (that we see as colors) are just a combination
of these three. The RGB color model works like this:
Fact 2:
If we have no lights what so ever, we can’t see with our Red Green Blue
(unarmed) eyes. 0 255 0 255 0 255
Fact 3: No All No All No All
Whenever we have less amount of light, we see objects darker Red Red Green Green Blue Blue
and the black color conquers our sight.
Why? With this system we can make 16.7 million colors, More than
Because if our eyes receive no reflection of light, they can’t we can even diagnose!
see anything, so they replace that area with the black color. As If we have all lights on their maximum level (255,255,255),
you can see, if you have a black book and a white book, the what do we have? White (all the reflections hit our eyes)
white book will reflect almost all of the lights that hit its If we have all lights at minimum (0, 0, 0), what do we have?
surface while the black book will absorb almost all of the Black. (None of the reflections hits our eyes).
lights and you see it as a black book. Because of no light! That’s all we have to know for now. You maybe now guessed
Another example is space, you see empty area as black why we chose this title.
because when you have nothing, you have no reflection. The
idea explains the name of black holes, because they suck all II. CONCLUSION
the lights into themselves and no reflection of them hit your
Until now, we all just remembered some facts that we all
eyes.
know. But we ask you a question:
So remember, there is a big difference between the black color
What is the color of anything without light?
and other colors.
You may answer: black. But remember as we saw earlier,
Fact 4:
black is not a color, It’s just a cover, a cover that our eyes
In the natural light, almost all of us see color of objects the
proceed to see what they can’t see actually. All we cannot see,
same. That means if I see a book blue, you will see that book
we see in black.
blue too, so the colors are (almost) constants. There are
Why? Lights and colors are bond to each other. If we have no
exceptions on this matter (for example some people see colors
source of light (light that our eyes can see) we see nothing (no
differently from others because of their visual systems,
colors) but black. Our eyes will see everything in black
different situations, some materials, etc.) that are irrelevant to
because they can’t see and precede them in any other colors,
this case.
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actually can see. This is not a part of the theory. This is just something that
You may answer: that’s right, we see them in black but they maybe is right or not. It’s something that I imagine about
are really the same colors as before. We just need some light negative colors, about when and how we would see them.
to see them. Where can we see objects but we don’t have some kind of
But really? Aren’t they bond to the source of light? Aren’t source like the sun and stars or electricity?
their colors different with different sources? I can only think of: The beyond. Where there is no stars and
They are the same when the source isn’t changing, but not we can see everything. Just think about that when we die, we
anymore after that. So what is the real color of anything when don’t have our eyes (and their limitations) anymore but we can
there is no source of light at all? see and then we probably have permission to see the true
The objects are in colors we can’t see, we cannot understand. colors of everything. No more black cover.
Our eyes don’t have access to them and cannot process them. And if heaven is built with those colors, I bet they are way
So they cover it and show it to us in black. more wonderful and beautiful than our attached colors.
We call them Negative Colors. The true colors of everything, If you believe in a life beyond our world, maybe this make
when there is no source of light. sense to you. Maybe our souls have that special power to see
Why the name “negative”? RGB color model showed us every true version of anything. And then we can see negative colors,
color with a number of three lights like: (12, 212, 118). These feel them and enjoy them.
numbers tell us about amount of existence of reflection of a
specific primary light. When there is no reflection, we have
black: (0, 0, 0).
Black is like a border, a line. A line between positive colors
(that we can see) and negative colors (that we cannot see them Farokh Shahabi Nezhad
and see them as black). That’s why we chose the name: I wrote this when I was 20, this was something that played with
Negative colors. The colors that don’t need any source of light my mind for a very long time. Maybe just with sharing this and
for their existence. thinking about it, new doors will be open and new visions will
So anything has a lot of colors that we can see with different be created. Even a vision to do something to see one true color
sources, and one true color, one true version, that we cannot of everything. In my mind, they are way beautiful.
see and even imagine (well, I can’t).
From now on, whenever you see something black, think about Contact email: [email protected]
the world that is behind that cover. Maybe someday we can
get access to negative colors and see them and surpass
limitations of our eyes and minds.

THE END