meteos

are you a bad enough dude?

awesome. 27 and white. i post words & pictures. my opinions aren't usually morally imperative and i love complaining. im butch lesbian & TME. vortinia some places, newLumos others. i love my wife @mothmans by the way. if you interact on a fetish account i might block you sorry


amydentata
@amydentata

There are several reasons why this is the case, that you can sus out from basic principles. We've evolved to judge scenes based on the physics of light at small scales in an atmosphere. In space, however, there's...

  • no atmospheric scattering (fog/haze), so no distance cues at all
  • a single light source (the sun) that functions like an idealized point light, with no backlighting from a sky, causing harsh, purely black shadows
  • no obvious bounced light between celestial objects, due to the distances between them
  • near-spherical or roughly globular shapes, whose fine details (craters or even mountains) aren't large enough to alter the object's silhouette, so everything looks unnaturally geometric

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you can get true color with that, it's how color photography was originally done, just with only as much sensitivity as the sensors themselves allow (which isn't that bad anymore, though it lags 5 years behind what we see in consumer products)