white · color
a visual mark that does not differ from the thing it is about and differs from black
Examples
- A sheet of unmarked paper in sunlight reflects 85% of incident light, indistinguishable from the surrounding air in a grayscale camera image. physics
- The 'white' squares on the 1886 London chess tournament board were made of unstained maple, identical in hue to the room's plaster walls under gaslight. institutions
- The 2017 Apple MacBook Pro's 'white' casing showed no contrast against fresh snow in a Reuters photograph taken at 10:14 UTC on March 20. engineering
Emergence
through: the visual mark and black together are a visual quality that does not differ from the thing it is about
- lack of contrast with substrate
- perceptual neutrality
- distinction through absence
Chain to foundations
as tree
- whiteL9
- marksL5
- blackL8
- matterL1
- energyL0 (shown above)
- justL2
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- patternL0 (shown above)
- littleL4
- extentL3
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- bigL2
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- othersL2
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- timeL0 (shown above)
- patternL0 (shown above)
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- marksL5 (shown above)
- stateL2
- visualL7
- informationL6
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- marksL5 (shown above)
- patternL0 (shown above)
- marksL5 (shown above)
- surfaceL4 (shown above)
- setsL3
- patternL0 (shown above)
- othersL2 (shown above)
- boundaryL2 (shown above)
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- informationL6
- exactL3
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- justL2 (shown above)
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- visualL7 (shown above)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (1)
Relations
| is-a | visual.perceptual | is-a |
| contrasts-with | black.color | contrasts-with |