like as a physical property. i don’t know any color-ology maybe there’s a simple way to make me get it but
IT SEEMS like color depends entirely on BRIGHTNESS so an OBJECT can’t have a fixed COLOR because BRIGHTNESS changes all the time!
So, if you’re going from a pure “this is what we’ve measured” science standpoint, the visible spectrum begins past infrared where the wavelengths are too long for us to pick up
As they tighten up, we get the standard ROY G BIV stuff you probably got taught until they tighten up so much we can’t pick them up either, ending with ultraviolet
Everything there has a set of wavelengths that we pick up and perceive as those colors, it’s the human visual spectrum
But that’s only because our eyes evolved to pick those up
Other living things perceive that exact same spectrum wildly differently because their eyes evolved differently for them
It’s one of those things that I love because it keeps me up at night
