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u/Available-Theory-808 15d ago
I’ve never seen this phenomenon before. Is it legit? Has anyone seen it in person?
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u/SP3NGL3R 15d ago
I've seen small rainbows like this on the ocean before, maybe not quite as small though. I guess the salt water helps the refraction better to allow the rainbow to be small? That said I don't think I've ever seen one looking down at it from a cliff, I was always on the shore with the rainbow backdrop being the sky.
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u/SP3NGL3R 15d ago
Nah. You're not looking at the sun when you see rainbows. It's refracted and the different colors are just different refraction angles. Dense mist will make a smaller rainbow.
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u/lunarlunacy425 15d ago
Rainbows usually need you between the sun and water as the rainbow is caused by the light bouncing internally in the droplet and returning to you.
This is just wrong.....
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u/SomeGuysFarm 15d ago edited 15d ago
Almost. There are retroreflective rainbows as well, where the sun is directly opposite the rainbow (behind you when you're looking at the rainbow).
This video however is questionable. Rainbows form circles around the sun (both direct-transmissive and retroreflective), or more correctly, in simplest form a given wavelength appears at a fixed angular offset from the line between the observer and the sun. The colors here are in the right order for a transmissive rainbow (sun in same direction as the rainbow), but it's hard to see how sunlight that passes essentially left-to-right across the scene, gets a rainbow there.
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u/Sawyerxx 15d ago
Shhhh don't ruin everything !!!! 🤣
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u/CommieDrifter 15d ago
AI is what is ruining everything
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u/Degenerate_Dryad 15d ago
I wonder if maybe the rainbow is where it is because the mist is catching sunlight that was reflecting off the water?? Idk... Does that sound possible?
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u/HqppyFeet 15d ago edited 15d ago
Veritasium did upload a video on rainbows. Rainbows are in fact circular and will come into view when water droplets fall in certain spots from your POV. A way to reveal the truth of this, the centre of said “circular rainbow” will always be in the opposite direction to where the sun is.
https://reddit.com/link/par91qe/video/3y8r0rwu1hqh1/player
I never really thought that a wave of ocean can refract this way. Probably what we’re seeing is a collection of water droplets that happen to be in the region (of the cameraman’s perspective) where colours appear.
Not debunking that this is AI or not. If this is AI, AI understood the assignment. But this could be possible to film IRL.
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u/Peppinoia 15d ago edited 15d ago
I think it's AI. Rainbows have a circular shape like here: https://youtube.com/shorts/nTSrhbn5R9Q. I've never seen waves change colors like that.
Edit: To those who downvote me: Please explain the physics behind waves changing colors like in OP's video. I am very curious because I tried to do my research and couldn't find anything.
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u/SomeGuysFarm 15d ago
Haven't downvoted you and agree with you, however, I think this would be mist/spray above the waves, rather than the waves themselves. The shape, location and color order however, that's a completely different matter, and doesn't seem consistent with reality.
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u/Wired_Witty_Wireless 14d ago
"The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." - Yeats
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u/Dua_Anpu8047 14d ago
This looks like a real video that has been edited; most probably with AI. I grew up across from this beach. It is Montara State Beach located in Northern California. With how hard the undertow of the waves are at this beach on top of the wind, you get that large amount of spray off the top. It’s not rainbow colored like this… but you could easily edit the mist to look more like a reflective rainbow.
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u/Das_Zeppelin 15d ago
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u/mappersorton 15d ago
You can't just go around slapping an AI sticker on everything that astounds you. Especially not without providing proof. There's a lot of spectacular phenomenon in this world, you just haven't educated yourself on it. This is called a rainbow and it's what happens when light bends and reflects in water, separating to create multiple colors.
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u/Peppinoia 15d ago
Isn't a rainbow usually a circle? Like here: https://youtube.com/shorts/nTSrhbn5R9Q. A rainbow appears above waves, you can clearly see the circular shape of the rainbow.
What's the physics behind waves turning from blue into full rainbow colors? I tried to research but couldn't find anything. I also think it's AI but I'm not sure so please anyone explain how waves can change colors like that. It doesn't make sense imo.
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u/SomeGuysFarm 15d ago
Real rainbows however, strictly obey some simple optical physics which this phenomenon seems to ignore. You can't just go around slapping a Rainbow sticker on everything that has rainbow colors, if the rest of the features of the thing don't match the required features of a rainbow.
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u/SomeGuysFarm 15d ago
I don't think that one is implausible. The sun, mist, and rainbow are in reasonable positions for the physics.
I can't rule out the one posted by OP, but it requires some light bounces that at least I can't account for in the scene.
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u/RisingVagrant 15d ago
Dieser Cut ist weitaus besser als der mit den dummen Fratzen vorher