Recently, I was wondering whether #000000 is white or black. During ET class, I discussed it with the guy next to me – and obviously, he knew that #000000 is black and #ffffff is white while I thought it’s the other way around. Why was I thinking so? Well, it’s easy. 0 stands for “nothing” for me. And no colour is white… while “full colour” is black to me. It might be because I used to paint a lot – and well, no paint usually is white, while all colours mixed together is black (okay, in reality, it’s some sort of very ugly brown).
But of course this is not the only way to see it. Colours also represent light: all colours of light mixed together is white – while no light at all is black. (Thus #000000 being black, I think.)
In the end, I’m not sure whether I’d rather associate white or black with ‘nothingness’. I still tend to say white, but, hmm… saying black sounds a lot more natural to me ^^;;;;;
Heh, I was wondering too wether black or white, or even both, are actually colors or not. I came to the conclusion that it’s black. Since white surfaces reflect all colors of the visible spectrum, while black swallow them all and reflect none, black must be a non-color. No light, no color. Thus, black is no color. I guess that’s it… But there may be more to it, though. ô.ô We need evidence! XD