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Visited the Lascaux cave replica again after 15 years and the color loss is shocking
I first saw the replica in 2008, and the ochre reds and blacks in the bison paintings were deep and clear. Returning this month, the pigments have faded to weak, washed-out versions, likely from years of standard museum lighting. Has anyone else documented this kind of decay in other site replicas, and what's being done to slow it down?
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grayjohnson7mo ago
Lascaux 2.0 fading faster than my jeans.
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blake4327mo ago
Hold up, that's a wild take. Digital stuff is way more permanent than paint on a wall. Those caves were fading for thousands of years before anyone even found them. Our backups and servers keep everything alive and perfect, not fading at all. If anything, our memes and posts are stuck forever, way more than some old bison drawing. The real Lascaux faded from moisture and time, our cloud storage doesn't have that problem.
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tylerlane5mo ago
Ugh, yeah, UV-filtered LED strips and lower humidity levels are the only thing that kept the Chauvet replica from looking like that.
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