Red, Blue, Green

India
November 14, 2012 12:12am CST
Hello :) Have you seen how colorful a rainbow is? I know there are scientific reasons for it to have such colors but there exists only 3 base colors-red,blue and green. I cannot even imagine what it would be like without these colors, what about you? Also, animals cannot see colors, did you know that?
5 responses
• Philippines
14 Nov 12
Hi too nitinnair89! :) Well that's a new information, are you really sure that animals don't see colors or are you referring to a specific animal? I don't think all animals can't see colors, maybe some does like bat(obviously, it's blind). Base on my observation thou, like in movie, when the camera view is shift to the animals view, it's still colored and like for insects multiple sight, they do that too in camera so same goes with animals. However, going back to your color question, without colors our world will be lifeless to our eyes. Color describe a thing, without color everything would be boring. And also, sometimes color is use to describe our feelings so it's really important. :)
• India
14 Nov 12
I have read it somewhere about this. But i am not sure. I doubt if that's real. So sad for them
• India
14 Nov 12
I was sure of that animals thing. But i am also sure that black is not considered a color anymore
• India
14 Nov 12
Haha...you are right..but still i feel sad for animals :(
@prashu228 (37524)
• India
14 Nov 12
i only know that the rainbow color has VIBGYOR and e can see them in rainbow. I don't know that only red ,blue and green colors only exists.Animals cannot recognize colors? i don't this point ,then how come a bull become so fearful when it sees the red color?
@prashu228 (37524)
• India
14 Nov 12
ohh, i didn't know that we cannot prepare those colors bu mixing other ones. Really good one, i learn't something new today.
• India
14 Nov 12
Not a problem friend. I just shared what i knew. Happy mylotting
• India
14 Nov 12
The correction in my title is 'red,blue,yellow' as the basic colors.The reason being,they cannot be created by mixing other colors.I don't know how factory creates them..lol.. There must be another reason for the bulls to attack when see red color
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
14 Nov 12
The three colours - red, blue and green - are called the 'primary colours' because our eyes have three types of colour receptors which are sensitive to colours in those three areas of the spectrum. That is why all the colours we can see can be said to be made up of those three colours. In fact, it is not true: the spectrum is continuous and each wavelength is a different colour, so there are really countless different colours, some of which we cannot tell the difference between with our eyes. It is a complete myth that animals cannot see colours. Many animals have colour vision but it is usually somewhat different from ours. Some animals (notably some insects, such as bees) can see colours which we cannot even detect. A flower, for example, looks very different to a bee than it does to us because a bee can see well into the ultra-violet part of the spectrum and some flowers have areas which strongly reflect these wavelengths. Horses, cows and other grazing animals have eyes which are adapted to seeing differences in grass and foliage which we cannot see so well but, on the other hand, their eyes are not so able to distinguish reds and browns (they can see these colours but they all tend to look the same). Dogs and cats are less able to distinguish reds and yellows than us but, on the other hand, they can see much better in very low light than we can. Many birds have much better colour vision than we do (if you think about it, those with very colourful plumage have developed it because other members of their species can see it and because it is essential to their social behaviour).
• India
14 Nov 12
wow owlwings! you have got a lot of information on these :) You are awesome
@MATT69AC (333)
• United States
14 Nov 12
It is not red, blue, and green. It is red, blue, and yellow. I know my main colors and they are used in a lot of things as in TV's, there are only red, blue, yellow in TV's but one TV company broke off of that to include green saying it gives a better picture. So now you know your main colors. :)
• India
14 Nov 12
Hi. Oh is that so? Now that you mention it, green is actually formed by mixing yellow and blue. Thanks a lot. I wish i could change my discussion title
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
14 Nov 12
There are three types of pixel in a TV or computer screen. Red, blue and green. Yellow is displayed by 'mixing' red and green light and white is obtained by mixing red, blue and green equally. This is called additive colour and applies to mixing light sources. Subtractive colour (as used in painting and printing) uses different primaries (which are actually the complementaries of the additive primaries). These are called Cyan, Magenta and Yellow (cyan is a pale blue, magenta is a rather purplish red). If you mix cyan and yellow, you get green but if you mix all of them equally you get something approaching black. Because nothing is perfect in this world, it never is absolutely black, which is why colour printing uses four colours, not three - cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
• India
14 Nov 12
Hi.. Yes you are right. For all these reasons i put the topic name in RGB format rather than using yellow color which is the base color. Thanks for sharing your knowledge friend.
@Mavic123456 (21893)
• Thailand
14 Nov 12
Red, blue and yellow. I think are the main colors. Blue and yellow when mixed give green. Whoaa am I right. i get lost here. But true without colors, things are black and white and we can not see the difference between ripe and rotten fruits. But I like rainbows and colors they are happy. :D
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
14 Nov 12
Red, blue and yellow (actually magenta, cyan and yellow) are the subtractive primaries. They are the colours which you mix when using paint. Red, blue and green are the additive primaries which are used when mixing light. Your computer screen nay be able to show some 64 thousand different 'colours' but, in fact, it only has three colours - red, green and blue - each of which it can display in 256 levels of brightness. A computer screen or a TV cannot actually display yellow: it fools us into thinking that we see yellow by making the red and green pixels bright and the blue pixels dark in those areas.
• India
14 Nov 12
you are talking about the RGB format but i was talking about the base colors..it was my mistake that i put wrong title.. :( but thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge friend..
• India
14 Nov 12
Hi. Thanks for the response. Yes you are right on that combination part. Lol. I guess without colors our life will be so dull