Meaning of colors

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What is a color ?

A color is the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light.

In other terms a color is a wavelength such as sounds, microwaves or even Gamma rays that is only understood by eyes.

Width wavelength view

Width color wavelength
Range of wavelength from radio waves to Gamma rays (in frequency or inversion number per a time range). source

Short wavelength view

Short color wavelength
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According to above image,

  • "violet" have a shorter wavelength and a higher frequency.
  • "red" have a longer wavelength and a lower frequency.

Wavelength explanation

Spiritual meaning

*Spiritual simply means that because color don't have an official sensation or definition of what it does on human body and mind, it's just a ~precise definition of the average color sensation definition by people's mind.

Red: (Primary color) Passion, love, energy, power, strength, heat

Orange: (Secondary color) Energy, change, courage, friendliness, success

Yellow: (Primary color) Happiness, bright, energy, creativity, intellect

Green: (Secondary color) Stability, fertility, freshness, healing, nature

Blue: (Primary color) Security, trust, intelligence

Indigo/violet: (Secondary color) Harmony, creativity, inspiration

And you, what feeling do you have about colors ?

How does color have sex ?

Additive and substractive color
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Color Addition: when colors of light combine: more wavelengths of light present
Color Subtraction when mix two pigments: more colors of light are absorbed (or subtracted)

An excellent article is available at http://w3.shorecrest.org/~Lisa_Peck/Physics/syllabus/soundlight/ch28color/ch28color_images/ch28_images.html to know more about color's physics properties.

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