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[scriver]

Something that looks green when reflecting light means it is absorbing red and reflecting green.  If you are looking "through" it - enough green got reflected the other way, the only thing left to get to your eyes is red.

Brown actually isn't a spectral color by the way; it's just the name we give particular shades of orange.

Brown is more of a colour than orange is! It's orange that I'd just a particular shade of brown!

[King Zultan]

Every colour is just a slightly different shade of brown.

[Frumple]

Except purple, or so I've been told. It's apparently actually what happens when your brain errors out and can't parse what it's seeing, so it's less a color and more "404 Color Not Found".

Purple is my favor not!color. Also my favorite color, purple haters can get stuffed :V

[hector13]

If you want to get technical, colours are every other colour except the colour they are because that’s the wavelength of light that’s not absorbed.

[scriver]

I do, I do want to get technicalour

[Ziusudra]

Except purple, or so I've been told. It's apparently actually what happens when your brain errors out and can't parse what it's seeing, so it's less a color and more "404 Color Not Found".

Magenta is definitely extra-spectral; purple is borderline with some considering it a shade of magenta, while others consider violet and indigo to be shades of purple. I'm in the latter group.

[EuchreJack]

What is Pink?

[hector13]

What is Pink?

A musician.

[Ziusudra]

One of my favorite singers actually.

As a color name 'pink' used to refer to a yellow color.

[Loud Whispers]

Out of simple curiosity:

What's everyone's favourite architectural style?

My standards have relaxed considerably to an appreciation for "anything built to last" and "beautiful" follows afterwards as a secondary condition. It becomes harder and harder to ignore non-renewable resources being wasted to build temporary structures in the interest of "cost saving" under the mistaken assumption that rebuilding the same building over and over again is cheaper than making it right once; it is a travesty that a wooden house older than the USA will sell well and sell high yet a developer will fuck his own concrete with iron rebar on the assumption that a quality house is unprofitable and the death of that house to mould, moist and rust is a big bucket of "I already sold not my problem." Every house should have a good hat, a good pair of shoes, stay as monomaterial as possible and breathable as possible and then that bastard will outlive your civilisation

[Egan_BW]

Mainly because the civilization is doomed, though.

[Loud Whispers]

Mainly because the civilization is doomed, though.

aren't we all bud

[King Zultan]

Reminds me of this show I watched years ago, it was called Life After People and it was about what happens to all of our crap we leave behind when all the people are dead.

[scriver]

One of my favorite singers actually.

As a color name 'pink' used to refer to a yellow color.

Which is funny because "pink" in Swedish is pee

Out of simple curiosity:

What's everyone's favourite architectural style?

I don't know my styles well enough to have one, but I like anything that looks old and has history, and in new architecture I like stuff that looks humble and unassuming and dislike everything concrete, glass-wally (in the skyscraper fashion), and things that try to hard to look modern or futuristic, especially when it's build in areas of natural beauty.

My prime example of terrible architecture is the new art hall in Djurgården, Stockholm. I've brought it up before I'm sure, because it's such a perfect example of garish and not-caring-how-it-fits-into-the-surroundings/context-blind architecture.

For context, Djurgården is one of the oldest still old parts of Stockholm. It's been around for a while, so it has some splendid buildings from different times, but more importantly it also features some of biggest, nicest greens and parks in Stockholm that is open to all people for free.

And then they plonk down this monstrosity in the middle of it:

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Because clearly what this retreat and haven of peace in the middle of the city needed was a huge WW2 military style bunker, right. Something completely bland that looks exactly like all other boring concrete blocks we've built for the last 80 years or so and they still claim to be "innovative" and "during" for some reason.

Spoiler: This is was the original art hall from 1916 looks like: (click to show/hide)

Which is much more beautiful.

Mainly because the civilization is doomed, though.

aren't we all bud

Not me, I am Ozymandias and my works will last eternal.

[TamerVirus]

Reminds me of this show I watched years ago, it was called Life After People and it was about what happens to all of our crap we leave behind when all the people are dead.

I remember that show! If only for the cgi scenes of great monuments collapsing due to lack of maintenance. And that NatGeo did an exact ripoff documentary like two months afterwards.
The only thing was that they treated it as if all of humanity was raptured/abducted by aliens/ got deleted at once.

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