Friday, October 18, 2013

Wave Runner


Wave Runner

This is a Sunshine Pony with a strip of frizzy white hair that becomes pink with UV exposure.
There are, however, two interesting features that make this pony special: 1) the fact his main colors are complementary, and 2) his symbols: seahorses.
He is magenta and green, two colors labeled as complementary, because they create a strong contrast and reinforce each other; and when combined in the right proportions, they produce a neutral color. There's yet another interesting fact: these colours are each other's negative color. This means if we invert the pony's colors as a photographic negative, we'll realize the body's color becomes the hair color, and vice-versa. Here are the pictures for the original and the reverse:




This pony likes to shift between alternate realities, yet keeping the same colors.



The symbols are seahorses, in other words, several green and yellow simplified representations of hippocampi. The hippocampus is also known to be an anatomic subdivision of the brain, belonging to the limbic system and crucial to the processing of memory. Wave Runner's symbols aren't there by chance. They exist to remind us that we shouldn't forget seahorses, because we've got them in our brains.



Wave Runner's seahorses are on his body. He doesn't have a hippocampus inside his hollow head. We do.

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