(21-02-2016, 08:25 PM)juergenw wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(04-02-2016, 05:35 AM)crezac wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.With respect to the green water in VMS people make a big deal about it being green bath water. I think there are a few other explanations offered here for discussion.
First possibility, the color isn't important because it was added later. ...
Second possibility, The water is used to indicate various steps in a process designed to produce some result. ...
Third possibility, it's green because the blue tint was too heavy to use for the water in most places. ....
Finally, copper, Polmolive or whatever, maybe it is a bath and they did have green bathwater. ...
Of course most of these are not either/or.
Another possibility could be the non-existence or non-use of blue in classical times. Blue was not used to visualise water (green, I believe, was). So that might have been an effect carried over from copying old sources?
And yet another possibility: many languages don't distinguish between blue and green, or don't classify them in the same way that we do on the color spectrum:
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