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artisnotsubjective t1_j2cp5q8 wrote

Not a color, just texture

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NolanSyKinsley t1_j2cwn67 wrote

A texture that removes all color, and the absence of color is.... what's that? Oh, right, black. Butterfly wings are blue and iridescent, but they are not blue at all, they are actually just shiny, the blue comes from their structure refracting light, so to you "it's just a texture" and not a color? or can color be generated by a structure by manipulating light waves?

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artisnotsubjective t1_j2d13nt wrote

Texture doesn't remove color. The absence of light does. No light equals no color.

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mic3ttaa OP t1_j2d3jhx wrote

Black does not reflect any light. A surface is called a reflective black surface if it has practically no diffuse reflection but a small amount of specular reflection. If you illuminate it with a small light source it will appear mostly black but will show a dim image of the light source.

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paultron10110 t1_j2cqj04 wrote

Well technically all colors are texture/structure based

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NolanSyKinsley t1_j2cwxxw wrote

No, not at all, unless you count individual atoms themselves as structures, but even then it is not their structure but their field that emits the light. Blue iridescence on insects, butterflies and birds is created by microscopic structures, vanta black and this absorb all the light with their structure, all other colors are just pigments, the individual atoms emit the specific wavelengths of colors themselves regardless of how they are arranged in a structure.

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