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[–]rtorlas 26 points27 points ago

Actually, IrfanView says there are only 75,110 colors in the pic.

[–]DeziiNe1[S] 38 points39 points ago

[–]Looks_Good_In_Hats 4 points5 points ago

Well, 75,110 colors doesn't seem simple.

[–]popimfresh 3 points4 points ago

haha, awesome, i was just coming back to post that there's no way there are a million colors. The png compression artifacts are enormous.

nice pic though.

[–]kampfy3 2 points3 points ago

I think they're jpg compression artifacts. It's a png because it's a screenshot of a phone. Hence the non-cropped black bars.

[–]CloneDeath 16 points17 points ago

[–]animeFMAmanga 5 points6 points ago

seems like its been reposted a million times

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[–]readforit 7 points8 points ago

Simple over compression ... A million JPEG artifacts...

FTFY

[–]Plethorian 1 point2 points ago

I've gotta get a mister when I start taking macro shots. Makes bugs so dramatic.

[–]toejam119 1 point2 points ago

mad cropping skills yo

also mad jpeg compression skills too

[–]blandwitch 1 point2 points ago

I immediately said "I love you little bug," out loud.

[–]Sadrockman 1 point2 points ago

Oh,the colors are beautiful.... NOW KILL IT! Those mother fuckers destroy everything leafy in my yard except for the grass. And you kill one, 4 of his buddies take his place

[–]Sventertainer 0 points1 point ago

Don't prismatic bugs like this radially polarize the light reflected off of them? Cool shit.

[–]Bigneak 0 points1 point ago

NOPE

[–]durock 0 points1 point ago

Looks like a bug riding a rocket.

[–]Lwhoop 0 points1 point ago

Imgur is offline?

[–]RowYourUpboat 0 points1 point ago

Just keep mashing F5.

This will punish their servers for denying you.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

I want to believe it tastes like all skittles flavors mixed together.

[–]trampus1 0 points1 point ago

That must be the most poisonous bug in the world.

[–]weeglos 0 points1 point ago

Japanese Beetle. Fuckers gnaw on my bushes all summer.

[–]Autogrex 0 points1 point ago

Pretty.

[–]frowgferd 1 point2 points ago

a mayate!

[–]Mr_fidge 0 points1 point ago

Simple beauty would be one colour surely? A million seems a bit excessive.

[–]MrChunky 0 points1 point ago

Well if you are referring to the initial colours that created this image than you are quite wrong. If what you are implying is that the whole visible spectrum is captured by this image then the wavelength from 390 to 750nm should be present. Then due to quantisation of photon energy we find 2.5x1028 individual wavelength. Now consider possible combinations of all these wavelength to produce separate colours and we get (2.25x1028)2.25x1028 which is more than a million and more than my calculator can handle.

[–]SgtSausage 0 points1 point ago

Kill it. It will destroy your garden.

[–]Aspel 0 points1 point ago

There's only, like, four colours and a lot of shading.

[–]PopeTheoskeptik -1 points0 points ago

That's one psychedelic wet beetle. Nice one.

[–]drunk_otter -2 points-1 points ago

I still prefer the Rolling Stones.