{"id":4066,"date":"2012-09-06T10:57:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T00:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2012-09-06T10:57:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T00:57:31","slug":"how-colour-works-and-other-interesting-stuff-with-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/2012\/09\/06\/how-colour-works-and-other-interesting-stuff-with-light\/","title":{"rendered":"How Colour Works and Other Interesting Stuff With Light."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidklemke\/status\/207481723754258432\" target=\"_blank\">red-wine induced inspiration<\/a> struck some months ago I&#8217;ve been on a bit of a period of rediscovering my love for all things photographic including the science behind it. I&#8217;m not terribly good with high concepts of these sorts of things and found that I work much better if I understand everything from a fundamental level. Whilst this might lead me into some rather esoteric areas of science (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scheimpflug_principle\" target=\"_blank\">Scheimpflug principle<\/a>, anyone?) I do find that the understanding that I glean from them helps me understand a whole host of things that seemed like a mystery to me before.<\/p>\n<p>Of course browsing Wikipedia for hours is not everyone&#8217;s fancy so today instead I give you a video done by the Vsauce guy from YouTube on how colour works:<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"This Is Not Yellow\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R3unPcJDbCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>If that wasn&#8217;t enough then check out the amazing properties of calcite crystals which exhibit some really intriguing behaviour:<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Double Vision - Sixty Symbols\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k1oh3lXR5PE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since my red-wine induced inspiration struck some months ago I&#8217;ve been on a bit of a period of rediscovering my love for all things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[3841,3842,245,2514,3296],"class_list":["post-4066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-calcite","tag-colour","tag-interesting","tag-light","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppBqt-13A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}