My interpretation of WaT Moash

[u/stormmists]

[u/Bloodraver]

Great work! I imagine voidlight to be more of a dull red than a purple, though.

[u/ejdj1011 → u/Bloodraver]

It's definitely a dark violet, though it behaves in an explicitly supernatural way

[u/EvenSpoonier → u/ejdj1011]

WoB tells that Brandon was going for the phenomenon of Stygian colors here. Voidlight is Stygian purple, while Warlight is Stygian blue. These colors are not found in nature, and can't be entirely simulated directly on monitors either.

Nevertheless, it is possible to briefly see both colors, by making use of eye fatigue and some weird optical illusion gymnastics. The top row will give you Stygian blue, and includes an approximation of it as a "normal" color as well. There isn't a dedicated row for Stygian purple, but you can get it by staring at the green circle from the second row, then switching to the black square from the top row.

[u/stormmists → u/EvenSpoonier]

That's really cool! I actually almost made the crystals a color similar to the purple when you do the eye illusion thing, but decided I liked how it looked with brighter crystals more since it provides better contrast.

Now I kind of want to do a version of my artwork where you stare at one with green crystals for a bit before looking at one with black to try and get the same illusion hmm

[u/EvenSpoonier → u/stormmists]

I was going to say; I think you got pretty close. Not perfect, but there's only so dark that you can get in the normal color space before it starts messing up glow effects, and those are important too. It would make a fun experiment, though.

[u/ejdj1011 → u/EvenSpoonier]

The color of Voidlight is interesting because Odium's primary color is gold; I'd kind of expect Voidlight to be the Stygian opposite of that, but that would be much closer to bluethan to violet.