• IlmariGanander@lemmy.wtf
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    22 days ago

    I always wondered what pre electric gas lighting looked like.

    One rowdy moment with someone throwing something and the whole place is on fire.

    • Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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      22 days ago

      A friend had an old cabin that had gas lighting. There was something surreal about it. The light is incredibly yellow and seemed to have limited wavelengths so the the colour pallete was distorted and very compressed. Also shadows didn’t seem to work the same way if that makes any sense. It was strange.

      Edited for autocorrect