monkey's wedding

[eub]

It was raining just now, and the sun came out, so I went to the roof to see if I could see a rainbow. I could, a fine fat one with a faint double. To the west, though, was something I hadn't seen before. Everything was brilliant white of sun-reflection, and Ballard, past 8th NW or so, was washed out, off-white on white, but not exponentially with distance, not like fog. Flat, like a painted backdrop, not just "lacking depth cues", but actively flat. I imagine this is the visual system's interpretation of depth in a foglike appearance. Why Ballard looked like that, though, I don't know.

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[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

Why 'monkey's wedding', rain and sun? But isn't that always a rainbow?

Hmm, I don't know about why sometimes lack of depth just looks like less depth and sometimes it looks like no depth. There's this whole thing about 'isoluminance' you can now do a Google search on and if you email me about it I can see what I remember from 15+ years ago. Mostly it's that stuff that's different colors is really hard to tell apart if it's the same brightness, and you can see it if you make poor choices in your background/text combos.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Well, sometimes the rain's in the wrong place or something.

I'm figuring that it's interpreted as if it were fog, so the lack of fade with depth gets seen as lack of depth.