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[โ€“] luthis@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

An art exhibit in Brisbane, the artist used a bunch of plastic sheets that were slightly tinted, but when you looked at the sheets through other plastic sheets, they were vibrantly brilliant colour.

[โ€“] daannii@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Those sheets were polarized film. In case you want to recreate it yourself.

It allows you to see polarized light. Which some animals can see. But humans generally can't.