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@SuricrasiaOnline @darius i don't think we can even *record* color accurately, much less reproduce it. i'm red-green colorblind (anomalous trichromat). this doesn't mean I can't see certain colors; it means my cones are tuned to different frequencies. i routinely am surprised by paintings i've seen reproductions of, because the capture/repro mechanisms are tuned for different eyes than mine
@phooky @SuricrasiaOnline this is a great example of how reproduction necessarily flattens things. I think if we had a star trek level replicator where we could atom-by-atom copy a painting and its canvas etc etc it *might* be close enough to get 99% of that energy across to people, but... we don't, so.