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Marconius

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What color is adamantine?
« on: April 28, 2010, 04:46:20 pm »
As I imagine many of you do, I like to imagine my Dwarves in a little more graphical glory than ASCII. Usually this works pretty well... but! I've run into a problem...

What color is smelted adamantine? As in, if I make a sword out of it, what color will it be? I know what steel, bronze or copper look like... but adamantine?

Is it blue? Is it a pale green? Is it like steel? Does it glow like a lightsaber?

What do you think?
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2010, 04:48:56 pm »
It's cyan.
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2010, 04:49:51 pm »
Light blue/cyan, like unsmelted adamantine is.
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2010, 04:50:12 pm »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamant
It's very popular in folklore, but no one agrees. In a google image search for it, I got coppery, silvery, blue-glowy, and most of all, rainbowy.

I'd bet cyan since Adamant bars are cyan.
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2010, 04:51:08 pm »
Bu-but... cyan looks crappy :(

Blood red weapons? Hell yeah. Black? Awesome. Blinding white? Glittery.


But cyan, damn. WTF.
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2010, 05:24:05 pm »
Quote from: Dwarf on April 28, 2010, 04:51:08 pm
Bu-but... cyan looks crappy :(

Blood red weapons? Hell yeah. Black? Awesome. Blinding white? Glittery.


But cyan, damn. WTF.

Just think of it as a pure metal with a faint, glowing blue luster to it.
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« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2010, 05:27:50 pm »
I like to think of it as the DF equivalent to mithril in Lord of the Rings, which would make it silver with a hint of blue (perhaps explaining why cyan is chosen to show it in-game).

In other video games it ranges from very dark gray to pale green...

For the true DF answer, you'd need to ask Toady  ;)
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2010, 05:57:56 pm »
I think the cyan is badass.
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2010, 06:19:55 pm »
Quote from: Dwarf on April 28, 2010, 04:51:08 pm
Bu-but... cyan looks crappy :(

Blood red weapons? Hell yeah. Black? Awesome. Blinding white? Glittery.


But cyan, damn. WTF.
It means like that to me:
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2010, 06:23:29 pm »
I guess because I am resistant to the concept of realistic material appearances even in a game that injects as much realism as seems possible into a setting teeming with dwarves and elves, I've always imagined adamantine to look like glacier ice.  Not quite transparent but not opaque like a mundane metal, blue from light but not necessarily blue and of itself.
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2010, 06:36:31 pm »
Well, that's certainly imaginative.

I think that adamantine is such a magical substance, that no two lodes are identical.  So, in my theory, you could all be right; then again, we could likewise all be wrong.

(Now I've got to go and mod in some new colors of adamantine...)
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2010, 07:13:09 pm »
Hmmm, I like the idea of a light blue color... maybe a soft, magical glow too.

Though on the other hand, imagining dwarves dressed in light blue armor is a little... eh...
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2010, 07:39:33 pm »
If your mind likes Realism over fantasy it could very well look like aerogel
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Its typically a bluish substance and has a ridiculously low density. It is also an extraordinary insulator
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2010, 07:39:54 pm »
Nihilist cancels qoute, meant to modify.
« Last Edit: April 28, 2010, 07:41:34 pm by Nihilist »
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2010, 07:40:52 pm »
Quote from: Nihilist on April 28, 2010, 07:39:54 pm
Quote from: Nihilist on April 28, 2010, 07:39:33 pm
If your mind likes Realism over fantasy it could very well look like aerogel
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Its typically a bluish substance and has a ridiculously low density. It is also an extraordinary insulator
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Tried to press modify I guess?
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