வெள்ளை

White
— பொதுவாகக் குறிப்பது —
தூய்மை, மென்மை, இல்லாமை, பனி, பனிக்கட்டி, சொர்க்கம், அமைதி, வாழ்க்கை, சுத்தம், காற்று, ஒளி, மேகங்கள், வெறுமை, உறைபனி, நல்லவை, பருத்தி, தேவதைகள், குளிர்காலம், அப்பாவித்தனம்
About these coordinates — Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FFFFFF
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(255, 255, 255)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(-°, 0%, 100%)
HSL	(hslH, hslS, hslL)	({{{hslH}}}°, {{{hslS}}}%, {{{hslL}}}%)
Source		By definition
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

வெள்ளை ஒரு நிறமாகும் இவ்வுணர்வு மனிதக் கண்ணில் காணப்படும் நிறத்தை அறியக்கூடிய மூன்று வகை கூம்புக் களங்களை கிட்டத்தட்ட நிகரான அளவின் தூண்டுவதும் சுற்றுப்புறச் சூழலைவிட கூடிய ஓளிர்மையைக் கொண்டதுமான ஒளியால் ஏற்படுத்தப்படுகிறது. வெள்ளை உணர்வு சாயல் (hue), சாம்பல் நிறம் (grayness) அற்றதாக காணப்படும். வெள்ளொளியை பலவாறாக உண்டாக்க முடியும். சூரியன் அவ்வாறனதொரு மூலமாகும். மின்சார வெண்சுடர் இன்னொரு மூலமாகும். தற்கால ஒளிமூலங்களான உடனொளிர்விளக்கு, ஒளிகாவும் இருமுனையம் போன்றவையும் வெள்ளொளி மூலங்களாகும். தனது மேற்பரப்பில் பட்டுத்தெறிக்கும் ஒளியை மாற்றதாக எப்பொருளும் வெள்ளை நிறமாகத் தோன்றும்.

பூக்கள், முகில்கள், தூவிப்பனி போன்றவை வெள்ளை நிறமாக தோன்றுவதால் மானிட காலாச்சரத்தில் வெள்ளை நிறம் முக்கிய இடத்தைப் பெற்றுள்ளது. பொதுவாக வெள்ளை நிறம் தூய்மை, சுத்தம் என்பவற்றைக் குறிக்கப் பயன்படுகிறது. வெள்ளை, கருப்பு நிறங்களிடையே காணப்படும் பாரிய வேறுபாட்டால் இவை வேற்றுமையைக் குறிக்க பயன்படுத்தப்படுகின்றன. சீன கலாச்சாரத்தில் வெள்ளை நிறம் சாவைக் குறிக்கிறது.

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  Fresh snow. Lhotse Mountain, on the border between Tibet and Nepal.
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  A glass of milk
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  Cumulus clouds
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  White marble - the Taj Mahal.
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  Alabaster statue of the three Maries, (circa 1450), Warsaw Museum.
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  A white Andalusian horse. White is commonly associated with innocence, perfection and purity.
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  Polar bear with young, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.
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  The white cliffs of Dover are composed of chalk, or calcium carbonate.

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  Prehistoric paintings in Chauvet cave, France (30,000 to 32,000 BC)
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  Painting of the goddess Isis (1380-1385 BC). The priests of her cult wore white linen.
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  Paintings of women in white from a tomb (1448-1422 BC).
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  Statue of the chief Vestal Virgin, wearing a white palla and a white veil.

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  The monks of the order of Saint Benedict (circa 480-542) first dressed in undyed white or gray wool robes, here shown in painting by Sodoma on the life of Saint Benedict (1504). They later changed to black robes, the color of humility and penitence.
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  The white unicorn frequently appeared in Medieval art, often as a symbol of virginity and purity. This the unicorn hunt from the Rochester Bestiary, from about 1230, in the British Library.
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  Under Pope Pius V (1504-1472, a former monk of the Dominican order, white became the official color worn by the Pope.
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  The white lamb in the Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck. (1432)
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  The Transfiguration by Fra Angelico (1440-1442)
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  Lady with an ermine, by Leonardo da Vinci (1490). The ermine symbolized nobility and purity. It was believed that an ermine would rather die than allow its white fur to become dirty.
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  Mary Stuart wore white in mourning for her husband, King Francois II of France, who died in 1560.

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  A highly theatrical white Rococo interior from the 18th century, at the Basilica at Ottobeuren, in Bavaria.
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  White gown of Marie Antoinette, painted by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun in 1783.
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  President George Washington in a white powdered wig. The first five Presidents of the United States wore dark suits with powdered wigs for formal occasions.
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  Portrait of Josephine de Beauharnais in a classic Empire gown, modeled after the clothing of ancient Rome. (1801), by Francois Gerard. (The State Hermitage Museum).
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  Symphony in White No. 1 - The White Girl, by James McNeill Whistler (1862).

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  Poster for the White Army during the Russian Civil War (1917–22). The poster says: "for a United Russia."
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  White on White (1917) by Kasimir Malevich, Museum of Modern Art, New York
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  The Villa Savoye (1928–31) by Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier called for a "calm and powerful" architecture built of steel and reinforced concrete.
• Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red by Piet Mondrian (1937 - 1942). Currently held as part of the Tate Collection.[1]
  Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red by Piet Mondrian (1937 - 1942). Currently held as part of the Tate Collection.[1]
• The singer Elvis Presley began his career dressed in black, but in the late 1960s he switched to a more flamboyant white costume, which he designed himself, to symbolize his place as the "king of rock and roll".
  The singer Elvis Presley began his career dressed in black, but in the late 1960s he switched to a more flamboyant white costume, which he designed himself, to symbolize his place as the "king of rock and roll".

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  In the RGB color model, used to create colors on TV and computer screens, white is made by mixing red, blue and green light at full intensity.
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  White light refracted in a prism revealing the color components.

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  Snow is composed of ice and air; it scatters or reflects sunlight without absorbing other colors of the spectrum.
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  Mont Blanc in the Alps. It takes its name from the white snow on its summit.
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  Cumulus clouds look white because the water droplets reflect and scatter the sunlight without absorbing other colors.
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  Pensacola Beach, Florida. White sand beaches look white because the quartz or eroded limestone in the sand reflects or scatters sunlight without absorbing other colors.

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  Titanium white, made with titanium dioxide, is the brightest white paint available. It also colors most toothpaste and sunscreen.
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  Zinc white, made from zinc oxide.

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  Image of Sirius A and Sirius B taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Sirius B, a white dwarf, is the faint pinprick of light to the lower left of the much brighter Sirius A.

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  The dove is an international symbol of peace.
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  The ivory gull.
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  Mute swans. Swans of the Northern Hemisphere are white, while those of the Southern Hemisphere are black and white.
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  The arctic fox.
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  The ermine, or stoat. Once considered the most noble of animals because it would rather die than dirty its fur, it is now considered an invasive species.
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  A snow leopard.
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  A beluga whale. Its color helps it hide from its chief enemies, the polar bear and killer whales.
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  White pearls are hard objects produced within the soft tissue of a living shelled mollusk, like an oyster or clam. They are made of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form.

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  The wedding dress of Queen Victoria (1840) set the fashion for wedding dresses of the Victorian era and for the 20th century.
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  The wedding of Czar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse), the granddaughter of Queen Victoria, in 1894.
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  Brides in China and other parts of Asia usually wear red, the color of happiness and good fortune, but in the Shinto religion of Japan brides traditionally wear a white wedding kimono.

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  The woman in white or dame blanche is a familiar figure in English, French and German ghost stories.
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  The Biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Conquest, with a bow, rides a white horse. Death rides a pale or light green horse. (Painting by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1887).

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  In Taoism, white represents the yang, or the masculine, one of the two opposite natures of the universe.

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  A pilgrim in Japan.
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  In Japan, the traditional envelope for condolence gifts is wrapped in a black and white cord, and a white kimono is often placed in the coffin with the deceased.
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  The Buddhist deity Tara is often depicted with white skin.
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  A Brahmin boy in India wears white for a religious ritual.
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  A Bedouin in the United Arab Emirates. White is the traditional costume for men, and the color of esteem and good fortune.

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  The Parthenon in Athens (5th century BC)
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  The Cathedral of Milan (1386-1965)
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  Dutch reformed church interior in Delft, the Netherlands (16th century)
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  Interior of Old North Church, Boston (1723)
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  The White House (1801), Washington D.C.
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  The United States Capitol dome (1855-1866)
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  Basilica of Sacre-Coeur, Paris (1919)
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  Saint Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco (1971)
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  The City Hall in the Hague, Netherlands, by architect Richard Meier (2004).

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  A recruiting poster for the White Volunteer Army during the Russian Civil War (1919). The text says, "Son, go save the motherland!"
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  A cross burning by the racist Ku Klux Klan in Florida in the early 20th century.

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  Thousands of pilgrims in white gather in Mecca for the beginning of their pilgrimage, or Haj.
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  Pope Francis (2013). The Pope wears white as a symbol of innocence and sacrifice.
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  The zen garden of Tofuku-ji temple in Japan. The Shinto religion uses white sand or gravel to symbolize a sacred place, while Zen Buddhism uses it to stimulate calm and meditation.

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  Flag of the Bourbons, royal family of France until the French Revolution and during the restoration of the monarchy afterwards.
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  The Flag of Vatican City (1929). The white and gold colors symbolize the colors of the keys to heaven given by Jesus Christ to Saint Peter: the gold of spiritual power, the white of worldly power. The keys have been the Papal symbol since the 13th century.
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  The flag of the Netherlands (1572) was the first red, white and blue national flag. Peter the Great adopted the colors for the flag of Russia.
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  The flag of India (1947). White represents "light, the path of truth".
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  The flag of Ireland. According to the Irish government press office, "The green represents the older Gaelic tradition while the orange represents the supporters of William of Orange. The white in the centre signifies a lasting truce between the 'Orange' and the 'Green'. "
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  The flag of Egypt (1984). The colors come from the flag of the Arab Revolt in 1916.
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  The flag of the Taliban in Afghanistan from 1997-2001. It reverses the colors of the Black Standard, the flag of Muhammad. The text says 'There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet."