(urth) Red Sun (branch from Geen Urth Redux)

[Son of Witz]

Berman Wrote:
>> in truth a red sun
>> probably would not produce enough of the proper energy on
>> Urth to allow the diet that Severian eats. He probably
>> would be restricted to eating fungi, deep-water algae,
>> maybe lichens or other low-intensity light utilizing
>> plants. Casual meat-eating would be an insane luxury under
>> such conditions).    
> 

Stockhoff wrote:
> This phenomenon may not be susceptible to analysis, because you're right that a truly red sun would starve Earth if it doesn't swallow it. Of course, we don't know exactly how red "red" is---all we know is that it's red enough to make winters worse and crops suffer but not enough to force Severian to eat fungi for breakfast. Technically, it must be pink, or else it's something we can't get too precise a

You know, every time I've painted the sun red it just seemed too dark, so I was backing off and using a very orange red. The text gives us "golden light" from the old sun at points. I've been working with color schemes that are pretty much like Earth, ie, the light is yellowish.  I imagine the old sun still looks like a shining star when you look at it in the day or morning, and that it doesn't look look like the sun does at sunset, red and not as bright, all day long.  Sometimes I wonder if everything should always look like it has a red filter over it.

Anyone?
Witz