I feel like if someone locked in a dark room with a blue box was asked what color it was, they’d say “I don’t know” as opposed to “black”
Interesting point about is vs looks. I was thinking about LEDs before (hence the “reflect/emit” part) but I think I want to walk that back a little…if an LED only emits blue light, we’d say the LED is blue. But an RGB LED? It definitely depends on what it’s currently doing. In both cases, the reflective properties of the LED module while it’s off are the same. So it’s like there’s a hierarchy to how we define color…color it’s emitting > color it CAN emit > color it CAN reflect > color it’s reflecting.
I’m just riffing here so I don’t really have a conclusion for that but it’s intersting to think about. There’s probably other examples that go against my hierarchy idea.
I feel like if someone locked in a dark room with a blue box was asked what color it was, they’d say “I don’t know” as opposed to “black”
Interesting point about is vs looks. I was thinking about LEDs before (hence the “reflect/emit” part) but I think I want to walk that back a little…if an LED only emits blue light, we’d say the LED is blue. But an RGB LED? It definitely depends on what it’s currently doing. In both cases, the reflective properties of the LED module while it’s off are the same. So it’s like there’s a hierarchy to how we define color…color it’s emitting > color it CAN emit > color it CAN reflect > color it’s reflecting.
I’m just riffing here so I don’t really have a conclusion for that but it’s intersting to think about. There’s probably other examples that go against my hierarchy idea.