Color is pretty. Color can distinguish things and identify representations. Red can mean hot or stop. Blue represents cold. Yellow is associated with caution from caution lights to caution signs, yellow means slow or pay close attention.
Artisans made an art of designing colors and animators have tried to press the boundaries of realism using some awesome tech. The folk that dabble in creating viable pigment seem to have archaic methods in comparison to the digital world's ability to create not only ultra realistic colors, but also puts the entire color spectrum in the user's hands. All the possibilities of every color calculated into seamless perfect color with none of the cleanup. But the finished product isn't viable, usable, applicable. Those pigment folk have to supply us with the ink in the printer, the dye that was used in your clothes and curtains, house paint, nail polish, make up, hair dye and much much more.
The visibility of color is attributed to light. Some colors reflect light, some absorb it. The sun is a giant ball of gas far away, but it does earth a great service. Not only does it provide vital substance to the flower, it also allows us to see the flower's vibrant color. Flowers, along with many creatures, use their color for protection. It was once commonly thought that anything red was poisonous to eat. Many creatures use their distinct colors to warn predators that they are poisonous or taste bad.
Humans also come in an array of color. Though our colors aren't really know for distinguishing how we taste, they are an anomaly of nature. The sun, our diets and our environments have shaped our species into every shade recognizable today. The need for these differences depends on our adaptation to our environment. Though we can't yet macro evolve we have micro evolved. Nature has assisted us in developing systems that allow us to thrive in our native climates. Science has made it more possible to survive in any environment even on the moon, but natural ability has been reduced to race. All the while, human colors represent nothing more than survival.
Millions of years of evolution, nature's hard work to help protect us, all of God's precious gifts, have all been reduced to slang terms. History can be boring, but it would benefit the human species to remember that there was a time before air conditioning, heaters, sunblock or raincoats. You may ask, "What did those poor people do to protect themselves from the elements?" They had skin meticulously crafted for them.
