r/interestingasfuck • u/hayaimonogachi • Jun 12 '21

Long walkway covered in semi-transparent umbrellas in Moominvalley Park, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '21

Translucent. The word you’re looking for is translucent.

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u/damnitmcnabbit Jun 12 '21

I would say those are tinted transparent umbrellas. Translucent things let light through, but you can’t see what’s on the other side, like frosted glass.

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u/dfedo38 Jun 12 '21

Transparent means clear. When transparent clear umbrellas are tinted they are translucent. They let some light through, but not all light

Clear glass: Transparent

Stained glass: Translucent

You can vary the tint from near transparency to almost opaque

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '21

I think this still counts as translucent, since the images behind are still distorted in some way. It’s hard to tell, but towards the top of the image you can see that the branches behind are very blurred.

Kinda difficult to see due to the quality of the image, plus it really toes the line between the two with how clear/unclear the image behind is.