Joshi Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Okay, gold, is it a colour? Okay, so a friend of mine paints his room gold, and then another friend comes along (he likes to argue everything) and says that strictly speaking, gold is not a colour, it's an element and a shade of yellow. what do you think is gold a colour all on it's own, or is it nothing more than a shade of yellow and a metalic element? discuss argue whatever Peace Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mex Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Originally posted by Neil Joshi Okay, gold, is it a colour? Okay, so a friend of mine paints his room gold, and then another friend comes along (he likes to argue everything) and says that strictly speaking, gold is not a colour, it's an element and a shade of yellow. what do you think is gold a colour all on it's own, or is it nothing more than a shade of yellow and a metalic element? I think gold is a colour on it's own. But that must be kind of cool painting a room gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted March 23, 2003 Author Share Posted March 23, 2003 well we all think he's gay anyway, but that's besides the point. do you have anything to back up your argument? (i agree with you, but i want this to be a good discussion, so say a little more) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HelenW Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Gold can be used as a colour. The metal is not really yellow is it. besides you get many differnet shades of yellow, how are you goingt o distinguish them? It's like red, everyone accepts scarlet as a colour, but it is a shade of red. In a similar vein to glod, silver can be used as a colour. It shows its a metallic kind of colour, and differentiates it from "grey". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al-back from the BigWhoop Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 i think- *is interrupted by hellen* well, i guess hellen said it all jk, jk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted March 24, 2003 Author Share Posted March 24, 2003 okay, so someone to day said to me that it's not a clour because it's not on the colour spectrum. would you say this to be true. will delve into the philosophies behind this later, in kind of a rush now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mex Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 Originally posted by HelenW Gold can be used as a colour. The metal is not really yellow is it. besides you get many differnet shades of yellow, how are you goingt o distinguish them? It's like red, everyone accepts scarlet as a colour, but it is a shade of red. In a similar vein to glod, silver can be used as a colour. It shows its a metallic kind of colour, and differentiates it from "grey". What she/he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted March 24, 2003 Author Share Posted March 24, 2003 umm, i'm pretty sure helen is a girl. despite the fact that i already nkow that from talking to her, the name seems to give a small hint. okay, so gold. i believe it is a colour. saying it is not one seems to say that orange is simply a shade of red or a fruit, or burgandy is a shade of red or just a wine. it's wrong. gold is a colour normally painted with a mixture of mainly yellow with small hints of green and black (very small). therefore it must be a colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brief Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 Originally posted by Neil Joshi okay, so someone to day said to me that it's not a clour because it's not on the colour spectrum. would you say this to be true. will delve into the philosophies behind this later, in kind of a rush now. Now that's just silly. If it's not in the color spectrum, we wouldn't be able to see it, since everything we're seeing are just colors, which our brain then interprets into objects based on the shapes. Is orange a color, or a fruit? Definition of 'gold' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted March 24, 2003 Author Share Posted March 24, 2003 wow, this thread went down like a lead balloon (did i already use that analogy?). i was expecting someone to argue this out, turns out it's just my friend who is wrong and the rest of teh world is right. i guess he just like to argue about things. okay, as to not completely lose this thread, new question (we can make this the thread of philosophical questions to discuss). and this one going to be a doozy considering many people ought to have different answers to it. okay, is there a single thing on this earth that is random? i mean if you took something that you would think to be random and calculated it to it's highest degree (however impossible it may be, believe it to be possible). an example, you get an itch on your arm, in any place on your arm. now could this have been predicted if studies on such things as anything comeing to your skin may irritate it, also adding to wind and air resistance and any other possibility, is it possible to record it down to the higest degree as to state when and where exactly this will happen. if so, then isn't, in the most part, clairvoyance doable, and therefore fate exists, everything happens for a reason and we are all preordained. or are many things in this univers random and serve to the chaos theory? discuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kjølen Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 Well, gold is am element. When We use gold to describe something what we are really saying is that color is like gold. Gold isn't really a color, though I guess that depends on some things. Example: Colors have been named AFTER gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Das Mole Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 okay, so someone to day said to me that it's not a clour because it's not on the colour spectrum. brown isn't in the spectrum tan isn't in the spectrum pink isn't in the spectrum black isn't in the spectrum gray isn't in the spectrum mahogany isn't in the spectrum maroon isn't in the spectrum burgandy isn't in the spectrum that is, if the spectrum means the light going the prism(or something to that effect ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted April 7, 2003 Author Share Posted April 7, 2003 shouldn't be, if you mix up all the colours in the spectrum, they make white. wrong, they make brown that's logical, so logicaly, gold is in the spectrum. as briefe said, if you can see it, it's in the pectrum. some may say it's metalic yelow, but then wouldn't that be easier to achieve than it actually is. i'm talking in the realms of art and animation, god gold effects and a good gold colour has only been available for the past two or three years where as before we've ha dto settle for contrasts of yellow and orange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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