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When you look at the scenery from a window of a railway compartment, you can also see the faintly reflected image of the scenery on the other side of the train. The two images overlap, so that you can study the color mixture formed. The reflection of the blue sky makes that of the green fields green-blue, and the resulting color becomes much paler and less saturated, a phenomenon inherent in color mixing.
Everything that lives strives for color
Goethe,Farbenlehre
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Minnaert, M. (1993). Colors. In: Light and Color in the Outdoors. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2722-9_7
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