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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | {{w|Metamaterials}}, artificially-created structures typically made from several materials in a microscopic checkerboard pattern, are famous for allowing bizarre optical properties, such as {{w| | + | {{w|Metamaterials}}, artificially-created structures typically made from several materials in a microscopic checkerboard pattern, are famous for allowing bizarre optical properties, such as {{w|Metamaterial_cloaking|invisibility cloaks}}. This comic imagines that metamaterials can change the color of light passing through them. |
− | + | (This premise is not true in the real world: A metamaterial can alter the spatial distribution of light, but not its frequency.) | |
− | + | Megan uses a sheet of her metamaterial to switch the colors of the cliché Valentine’s Day poem, “{{w|Roses are red}}, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you.” | |
− | The title text references this with [[Randall]] pondering making a metamaterial that reverses the effect of {{w|instagram}} filters, likely by placing the material between the camera and the subject just before the picture is taken without the photographer | + | The title text references this with [[Randall]] pondering making a metamaterial that reverses the effect of {{w|instagram}} filters, likely by placing the material between the camera and the subject just before the picture is taken without the photographer notices - a so called {{W|photobombing}}. Instagram is a photo application that applies one of a variety of filters like {{w|Color theory|hue-shift}} or contrast adjustments meant to simulate the look of old photographs. These filters may be able to interchange blue and red - as they are not real material filters. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | + | :Megan (off-screen): Violets are red. | |
− | :Megan (off-screen) | + | :Megan (off-screen): And roses are blue. |
− | :Violets are red | + | :Megan: When metamaterials |
− | + | :Megan: Alter their hue. | |
− | :Megan (off-screen) | ||
− | :And roses are blue | ||
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− | :Megan | ||
− | :When metamaterials | ||
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− | :Alter their hue. | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
[[Category:Science]] | [[Category:Science]] | ||
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