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{{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. | {{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. | ||
| − | In the real world a metamaterial can alter the spatial distribution of light and also its frequency, like done in {{w| | + | In the real world a metamaterial can alter the spatial distribution of light and also its frequency, like done in {{w|Fluorescent lamp}}s — but this would not resemble the entire picture in a different color. In photography many {{w|Photographic filter#Color conversion|filters}} are used to enhance the quality and appearance of the image. These filters do not alter colors but block some of them, so the result is shown in a different color than the original. Nevertheless, no application like this is able to switch a single color to another as it can be done by most modern computer photo programs. |
| − | [[Megan]] uses a box made of her metamaterial to switch the colors of the cliché Valentine's Day poem, "{{w|Roses are red | + | [[Megan]] uses a box made 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 noticing - 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. | 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 noticing - 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. | ||
