A beautiful image by Kevin Pease, for his comic Why the Long Face?.
Of course, as I've been doing way to much Feynman of late, I notice that the colors of the secondary rainbow are in the wrong order. Also, the sky between the bows should be darker, and I think we should be seeing sunset coloring - the bow seems awfully high for the sun to still be giving full day light.
M.G.J. Minnaert's Light and Color in the Outdoors has a lot of math in it explaining why these things look the way they do. Don't pick up this book if some other task will shortly be requiring your attention.
September 21, 2003 11:26 AM
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