striped icebergs form as meltwater refreezes in crevasses atop glaciers before air bubbles can become trapped in the ice, which is later calved into icebergs, or when supercooled seawater freezes inside cracks beneath an ice shelf, which then becomes visible when the iceberg breaks off and flips.
over time, the weight of accumulated snow contorts and curves these blue bands of ice, as does erosion from waves and wind. dust and volcanic ash falling on the iceberg can darken the ice, while dissolved organic compounds entering from below can shade it towards cyan.
accumulated snow also compresses air bubbles trapped in the iceberg, thus preventing them from otherwise interfering with the passage of light. and because water absorbs photons from the red end of the visible spectrum much better than the blue end, bubble free ice takes on a blue colour.
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Fucking christ, do you know what this would have done? What this would have meant to SO MANY people?? The truth of this is devastating. And to think it almost found it’s way into a DISNEY film??
The inclusion of this scene alone would have made it the greatest animated feature the company ever produced. Easily. And if you think that’s hyperbolic clearly you don’t understand.
No, really, if anyone knows why this was cut PLEASE let me know.
oh man WHY WOULD they cut this, this is so great, holy MOLY
It was clearly something the crew was very reluctant to get rid of if it made it all the way to rough-clean (and in a few scenes clean!), fully inbetweened animation. That is like, thousands and thousands of dollars and weeks (months?!) of labour. Maybe a reluctant producer decided they would alienate their white middle-class American audiences by making them feel “too guilty” and pressed them to drop it? It’s unfortunate, it’s one of the most honest accounts of racism in a Disney movie (which is why it’s believable that someone got uncomfortable and made a case to get it chopped)
Designing entertainment by committee for maximum marketability is probably the most heartbreaking process in Hollywood.
I’ve been seeing this around my dash and think it deserves some more recognition!
The bioluminescent octopus (scientific name: Stauroteuthis syrtensis) is really weird. Seriously, their tentacles’ lengths don’t match up (they can stretch out to around fourteen inches though) and they’ve got web connecting them and they look like disgruntled floppy umbrellas. They’re also very pretty.
Okay, so maybe the weird thing about them is not that they look like umbrellas, but that they glow! This is a pretty strange quality for an octopod, considering the only other times anyone’s ever heard of these shenanigans were with two other species that had glowy rings around the mouths of breeding females (that’s actually really weird too, maybe I should have written about that).
They have about forty suckers called photophores that should be your average octopus suction-cup, but instead are genetically modified through evolution to do less suctioning and more glowing. They still have multiple traits of normal suckers, apparently, but a lot of the muscles usually found in them were replaced by cells to aid in bioluminescence instead.
The light fades out toward the end of the row of photophores and is supposedly used to scare off predators but also lure in prey. The other idea is that they use it to communicate, which sounds awesome because some of them some of them do blink their lights and twinkle like Christmas lights (that might be a little bit embellished, but you get the point), and it just sounds beautiful and these guys are awesome I rest my case thank you and goodnight
You have no idea how long this problem plagued me but now I’ve found out how to fix it!! Just so you know, Manga Studio and Clip Studio Paint are the same program, Manga Studio is just a repackaged edition with different (or worse) translations and it’s missing a shit ton of screentones. I own both unfortunately.
