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Color Is a Dance Between Your Brain and the World
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . When Robbert Dijkgraaf was a little boy, growing up in the Netherlands, he’d play in his home attic after school, often with a friend. It was dark inside except for the light streaming in from one window. One time, they closed the […] -
Why the Dark Side of the Force Had to Be Dark
You don’t have to look very hard to see that our culture has some pretty powerful associations between colors and feelings. As a recent example, the new Pixar film Inside Out has characters representing emotions, and the color choices for these characters—red for anger, and blue for sadness—feel right. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. […] -
A Material So Dark That It Looks Like a Black Hole
Even when applied to a highly reflective surface like aluminum foil, Vantablack renders the entire surface, including creases, all but invisible.Surrey Nanosystems via Wikipedia Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Color is such a powerful and evocative sensation—one of the first that we learn to describe as children—that we […] -
Are Digital Cameras Changing the Nature of Movies?
If film as a medium is not quite dead, it’s definitely on the endangered list.