Questions tagged [unusual-color]
This tag should be used for questions that are related to our real world, but where objects or creatures have unusual colors, such as planets of different colors.
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Is complete melanism possible in humans?
One of my characters has a genetic disease called "Complete Melanism". Her eyes, her skin, her hair, and her internal organs are all black. Like a famous Indonesian breed of chicken.
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What composition would a white atmosphere have?
I am playing Kerbal Space Program with the Precursors Planet Pack, which starts you on the planet Frontier with a white atmosphere, as viewed both from the surface and from space.
What kind of ...
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Flames with Unusual Colors
I saw that in A Song of Ice and Fire the dragons have flames of varying colors depending on the color of their scales. Balerion has black flames with red swirls, Tessarion has cobalt blue flames, ...
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Is a world where all creatures are blue possible?
Blue is a rare color in nature. If you think of one random organism, there's a high chance that the organism won't be blue. That's why some filmmakers use "blue-screens."
But what if there ...
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Could an animal with eyes be patterned like an earthworm?
I have created a few creatures with a pattern based on that of the earthworm (head and foremost back-portion is dark, belly and rear is paler). Both of these creatures have eyes, and on one creature ...
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Is bi-metallic blood possible to develop organically in a species?
I've looked up the different "Colorations" of blood online, different metal-based proteins have differing levels of oxygen transfer efficiency, but those were answers I didn't find ...
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Red Sun Plus Blue Sun Equals Magenta Sky?
Okay, my second cousin is working on a story that takes place on a planet named Odroia. It is an Earthlike planet with a supercontinent similar to Pangea, that has scattered rivers and lakes, with its ...
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Practical reason for genetically engineering exotic skin colors in humans?
I am trying to come up with a non-aesthetic reason for a group of humans to have been genetically altered to have an exotic skin color. Purple, blue, green, red, I'm not particularly fussed about ...
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If I have an Earth-like world with Earth-like fauna, and I want brightly-colored mammals, what would be a realistic way of causing that to evolve?
On Earth, while birds and reptiles can be quite brightly colored, it's rare for mammals to have any bright colors, and the rare times they do, it's either just slightly different (like with orangutans)...
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What Kind of Pigment Would Allow Basic Photosynthesis and Give the Skin a Blue Color
Let's say there is a planet orbiting a star. The planet is much like our own, with a similar atmosphere. However, the star this planet orbits differ from out star. It differs in such a way that it ...
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Would cobalt make a moon blue?
Would abnormally high levels of cobalt on a moon cause it to appear blue to those on the planet it orbits?
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Would it be possible for my fantasy creature to have black blood?
A friend of mine has a race of creatures in her headworld and has been wondering about a biological answer to justify the color of her race's blood even though magic is a bit sprinkled in there.
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How could a race of humanoids have grey skin?
Gray skin and red eyes is a common look for Dark Elves, and I have a similar race in my own world. But what would physically cause such an appearance?
Hard Requirements:
Must not be the result of ...
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What would make bones be of different colors?
I am currently working in a "fantasy" world without any kind of magic and I thought of a race with different skeleton color (blackish in particular but I want to know in general). I am not well versed ...
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What plant colours other than black could be available on a red dwarf planet?
Hello! I'm no scientist so I've reached the limit of my knowledge. I was wondering if any of you smart beans out there would be able to help me figure this out? Here are the specs of my system;
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What would humans look like if their blood were silver?
I have a species in mind that I want to write about for a book I'm planning, and they look exactly like humans (minus the 'unnatural' hair and eye colors they can posses). However, they have silver ...
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Can Apes (Including Humans) Be Naturally Patterned Like Felids?
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Apes are visual species who rely more on their eyesight than any of the other senses. As a result, they see the world in three shades of color, whereas other mammals see in one ...
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Plausibility of purple oceans
Alright, so I've been meaning to write out a planet with golden/yellow fields and a violet / purple ocean.
What I was thinking about is having the water of this world is so clean and nourishing that ...
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Infrared reality
Is it possible for an earth-like planet to be perceived (by human eyes) in real-time as an infrared photograph? If so, in what conditions?
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To make a blue moon, what element does it need?
We know that Mars has a reddish color, because its ground consists of iron-based compounds. The moon is grey-whiteish because it consists mostly of silicon-based compounds.
What element should the ...
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How can I get different colours of ocean? [closed]
We think of oceans and large lakes as being blue.
How can I get other colours in a way that is reasonably compatible with what we know from terrestial bio-geo-chemistry?
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A Wider Range of Human Skin Color — But Would The Transition Between Shades Be Natural? [closed]
Long ago, it was thought that the peoples of Europe developed white skin as a means of adapting to the low-level lighting of ice age Europe (an assumption that disregarded why the people of Asia don't ...
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Why would a big cat have black fur around its face?
A few days ago, I saw this very nice reconstruction of a Machairodus giganteus by Peter Hutzler:
More recently, I've been thinking about it, and I'm wondering A) if it would evolve without getting in ...
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Can a planet harbor plants of different colors without one pigment outcompeting the others?
On Earth, all plants are green because they contain the pigment chlorophyll, which photosynthesizes by absorbing all light except green light.
However, it is quite possible - if not likely - that ...
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Advanced Alien Coloring [closed]
The Mantis Shrimp is a crustacean known for two things:
its punch
its eyes
For this question I will focus on the latter.
A theory about the effects of their super vision is that it causes their ...
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Could an organism see in infrared light as well as normal light, using its brain to process what it sees into a single image?
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Humans create a composite image out out what each of their eyes see
Humans process the two images into one using their visual cortex
Humans can't see infrared because of a lack of ...
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Growing blue trees [duplicate]
What about the atmosphere of earth makes green the best color for plants, and what would have to change to make blue the best color? The fact that these changes could not happen on earth, an so would ...
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Purple soil - how would it be possible?
For one of my projects, I'm developing an inhabited Earth-like world, with the key visual difference being that much of the land is purple, instead of the brownish colour it is on Earth. My question ...
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Can a rocky planet or moon be stark white?
From pictures I've seen, all rocky planets in our solar system are some shade of grey, brown, and red. Ignoring stuff like atmosphere and oceans and plant life of course.
I was thinking of a world ...
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Blue soil (aka dirt) in an earth-like planet?
How could blue soil exist, in a realistic earth-like world.
The world may even be earth.
First off is it even possible - could soil like this exist given the requirements below? (if not then why?)
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