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Originally Posted by five10
*thread resuscitation*
I've been going to a few dealerships lately, and have only been seeing black. Dealers say that whites have been selling like hotcakes w/wait-lists 2-3 people long.
Pretty interesting that back in 2012, only whites were available. TBH, the only 300's I've seen were on the dealership floor.
Anybody know when the US will be getting more colors?
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Actually, it's pretty well understood that we were only seeing white because Kawi was only producing white at that point. The factory goes through phases in what colors and regional variations they make. One week they are making ABS versions in green, another they are making 50-state versions in black, another they are making 49-state versions in black (less changes), and so on.
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Originally Posted by BlueHairSar
Depends on how you're looking at it.
If you shine white light onto a red ball, red wavelengths are being reflected back to your eye, so that you perceive it a red. All other wavelengths are being absorbed. So technically the ball is everything BUT red.
And black is either the absorption of all colors, or a lack of light.  |
No, technically the ball "is" red because that it the technical definition of red. It doesn't depend on "how you look at it." All red objects reflect or pass-through red and absorb or block the other visible wavelengths. Red light and red objects are two different things with distinct definitions. A device that emits red light is not a red object unless it also only reflects or allow through red light (a bulb with a tint). A color television with a CRT or LCD, for example, emits all colors but is black itself.
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Originally Posted by BlueHairSar
OH, except this is talking about pigment. Which we were. If we're talking about light, then yes you are (partially) correct that white is a mixture of colours, though it doesn't necessarily need to be all wavelengths, as you can also get white by mixing Red and Cyan. Or Green and magenta. Or blue and white... or a plethora of other ***  |
The two are inexorably intertwined. Pigments reflect and absorb light to be the color that they are. The reason you get white with two other colors is because those other colors include all primary colors. For example, green is yellow and blue, so all it needs is red to be white. A television tube can show yellow images with only red, green, and blue phosphors because it can shift the spectrum from green by adding red (only possible with mixing emissions, not colors on surfaces that absorb/reflect).
FWIW, I'm color-blind.