headplusfoot.bsky.social
g'day, my name's Olive R.F. I'm living and making on unceded Wurundjeri Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung Country. Not really active on social media, it mostly stinks. games and such at https://orf.itch.io find me elseware: https://orf.place/bio.html
👤 Joined on 19 October 2024
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@radiofrequencie.bsky.social@radiofrequencie.bsky.social → @eatallyourdarlings.bsky.social@eatallyourdarlings.bsky.social → @headplusfoot.bsky.socialsome species can see linear polarization of light. to them, the sky is a palpable compass. and color has a separate dimension- angle + degree of polarization, which has cultural weight. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Show Postit's interesting, when doing world building, to just find a thread and get curious about it, to follow it and see where it leads. in my experience, most questions are only three or four steps away from staring at the abyss of embodied existence (positive). it's great to find ways to weave this in.
Show Post[the coiled sun] has a lot of different technology bearing species in it. and biology and physical context also affect this! blue may not be distant because depth haze is whiter in some places. if you lived underwater, maybe more blue would mean closer to the surface, warmer.
Show Postso maybe in your tidal flat amphibian community, the houses are painted robin's egg blue through lapis, and these are nice cheery warm colors.
Show Poston colors in "the coiled sun" western art theory names red as nearby, emotional; blue as distant, dispassionate. it always bothered me. it's heuristics puffed up as absolutes. blue is part of a continuum of wavelengths of light which can be grouped, named, and variously acquire associations...
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