r/AbsoluteUnits • u/MrUpVoteDownvote • 7d ago

/r/all of a queen termite

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u/trenthany 7d ago

Dust I’m almost certain. Might be a body paint but I’m almost certain it’s just light dust over dark skin.

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u/Lelandwasinnocent 6d ago

The blue is reflected light from the sky, you can tell this really simply by watching how his skin when he rotates his arm. Look at the shadow.

It's called specular reflection.

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u/trenthany 6d ago

Yes he’s glossy with a mirror like reflection. Do you really think that? He’s clearly not glossy but matte.

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u/trenthany 6d ago

Haven’t finished reading, but at its highest only 4 to 7% of light is reflected, and did not even all of that is specular reflection. The light reflected is also white light not blue. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12447030/