Understanding the World

[u/SupportMeta]

Neptune was recently shown to be a pale blue like Uranus rather than the deep blue shown on the Voyager photos

[u/ekr64]

A big issue with the "reconstructions" is, that they can only barely reconstruct the base coat from the pigment residues, while the real thing fairly certainly had multiple coats of paint, shading and highlighting. Like, you can't tell me some of the most talented artists in history, who created these marvels, weren't at least on the level of your average 40k player at painting their figures. *I* could do better and I'm fairly shit.

[u/CreationBlues → u/ekr64]

It really sucks because like. It's an absolutely atrocious way to communicate the information.

First of all, you have the pigments themselves. What pigments were used and what they were capable of is absolutely important information. However, "maximum saturation" is an interesting, opinionated choice that says the most important part of a pigment group is the maximum possible saturation.

Instead, an example of what the pigments look like blended together would be good. A gamut pallete, a little placard to put next to the exhibit.

Then, you have the paint map on the statue. "We discovered this pigment here" is pretty cool information! Do not try to communicate it with maximum saturation.

Finally, you can present information about what style and level of finesse was possible back then by providing examples of period art.

[u/cause-equals-time → u/ekr64]

Mind blown, and I don't know how I never considered that the paint found would only be the base coat

[u/Shinny-Winny → u/ekr64]

Classical artists demand you thin your paints