What color is a mirror?

Started by JacopeX3 pages

Rainbow colors

and behind a mirror

Tallic

Re: What color is a mirror?

Originally posted by =Tired Hiker=
hmm
Whatever color it wants to be. ✅

Originally posted by §P0oONY
That'd be white retard.
No, since it reflects all light the mirror itself is black. It does not absorb any color; if it absorbed all light then it would be white. It also depends on what you are considering the color of an object, if it the actual object then it would be all colors except for the visual color that it reflects but if the frame or reference is what you see then it is what it reflects.

For a mirror if you use the visual spectrum then it is only the color of what is hitting it, since it reflects light in a defined pattern and doesn’t scatter it like other objects it not really a color as we define them. This is a question that I have had come up every time I’ve taken color theory at school.

Originally posted by silver_tears
Mirrors are just aluminum and glass shrug

...or copper, silver or any high polished surface

Originally posted by ladygrim
but actually yeah to me its anything i can see myself in

Nobody will ever know the color of a mirror b/c it reflects light. It doesn't absorb any light, therefore not absorbing any color there for having no color.

If someone could just turn of the reflection mechanism then we could finally witness the color which is of the mirror por favor......*cough*......hmph..... E=Mc squared.....watson....and all that jazz.

anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

Originally posted by InnerRise
Nobody will ever know the color of a mirror b/c it reflects light. It doesn't absorb any light, therefore not absorbing any color there for having no color.

If someone could just turn of the reflection mechanism then we could finally witness the color which is of the mirror por favor......*cough*......hmph..... E=Mc squared.....watson....and all that jazz.

anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

If you really want to think about it, technically everything is “black”. Every object has no “color” and it requires light and the visual spectrum to see it. The only thing that would have color is if it produced its own light.

Originally posted by ThePittman
No, since it reflects all light the mirror itself is black. It does not absorb any color; if it absorbed all light then it would be white. It also depends on what you are considering the color of an object, if it the actual object then it would be all colors except for the visual color that it reflects but if the frame or reference is what you see then it is what it reflects.

For a mirror if you use the visual spectrum then it is only the color of what is hitting it, since it reflects light in a defined pattern and doesn’t scatter it like other objects it not really a color as we define them. This is a question that I have had come up every time I’ve taken color theory at school.

Spoony's right ya' know, if something reflects all colours of the visible light spectrum, the thing that reflected the light has to be white, not black, if it were black, no light would be reflected at all😬

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
Spoony's right ya' know, if something reflects all colours of the visible light spectrum, the thing that reflected the light has to be white, not black, if it were black, no light would be reflected at all😬
No, didn’t you read my post? All objects have no color, it is only light that gives them a “color” in the visual spectrum. With a mirror you can’t call it white either by the normal definition of color because it doesn’t scatter the light; it perfectly reflects it so in many ways it is still light but the object itself has no color.

Originally posted by ThePittman
No, didn’t you read my post? All objects have no color, it is only light that gives them a “color” in the visual spectrum. With a mirror you can’t call it white either by the normal definition of color because it doesn’t scatter the light; it perfectly reflects it so in many ways it is still light but the object itself has no color.

Objects do have colour, the light is what allows us to see that colour.........as with the mirror, I don't know what colour a mirror is either, maybe the colour of whatever it is reflectingsrug

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
Objects do have colour, the light is what allows us to see that colour.........as with the mirror, I don't know what colour a mirror is either, maybe the colour of whatever it is reflectingsrug
Objects do not have color, color only comes from light, and if there is no light then there is no color. If an object has color then in darkness you would be able to see it like neon, fire or like a glow stick. These objects give off light so you can see it. A red shirt is only red if there is light present without light it is “black” or without color. We see in a certain spectrum so the object to us looks red but to an animal it can be something else, if the object has “color” then it would appear the same to all. It is the refractive properties of the material that reflects/scatters the light that the rods and cones in our eyes pick up but it doesn’t have color.

it is silver. and always will be. forever. and ever. and always

Originally posted by fg and sd
it is silver. and always will be. forever. and ever. and always

Sweeeeet! I love that everyone is arguing about this. w00t

Re: What color is a mirror?

Originally posted by =Tired Hiker=
hmm

From my experiance, very ugly. weep

A mirror is fork. End. :¬ (

Originally posted by =Tired Hiker=
Sweeeeet! I love that everyone is arguing about this. w00t
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