What is the rarest color in nature? - Victoria Hwang
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Plants, animals, or minerals found in nature bear almost every color imaginable. There are two factors that influence what hues you see in the wild: physics and evolution. So, which colors are you least likely to see in the natural world? Victoria Hwang explores one of nature’s rarest spectacles.
Explain how absorption-based colors (also known as pigments) are formed.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Victoria Hwang
- Director Tamara Bogovac, Artrake Studio
- Narrator Alexandra Panzer
- Storyboard Artist Tamara Bogovac
- Animator Jovan Rakić, Tamara Bogovac
- Compositor Jovan Rakić
- Art Director Tamara Bogovac
- Music Nikola Radivojevic
- Sound Designer Nikola Radivojevic
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Producer Anna Bechtol
- Associate Producer Sazia Afrin
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Editorial Producer Dan Kwartler
- Script Editor Emma Bryce
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
