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Screenshot from video!

Ok, say you want to make a film about a clown, complete with colorful hair and attire, on the red sands of Mars. That would be incredibly complicated to do with modern green screen techniques. But what if this technology has been developed decades ago and then lost? Well, AlonzoMosleyFBI made a post about the Creative Corridor's journey to recreate this "lost" process so they could do a screen test of, you guessed it, a clown, complete with colorful hair and attire, on the red sands of Mars!

Colors by estevan_poll (cc by)

Lots of interesting answers to Charity Garfein's question, "Do you know any cool facts about colors?"!

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1747 by Ape Lad (cc by-nc-nd)

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post-it colors

MetaFilter member overeducated_alligator gives us the low-down on why Post-It notes come only in certain colors that don't seem evenly spread throughout the color wheel.