How to Use false color in a Sentence
false color
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Its 14-point bursts don't have crisp tines and introduce some false color.
—PCMAG, 31 Mar. 2024
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The background blur is generally quite smooth, with no signs of false color.
—Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 13 May 2026
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The lushly green region appears red because this is a false color image.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2017
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On a positive note, the lens flares more like vintage glass, so the flare avoids false color and can be used for artistic effect.
—PCMAG, 27 Sep. 2024
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Transitions away from the plane of focus are gradual, while false color is absent.
—PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024
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The images show the massive planet in false color to better reveal the turbulent cloud tops and swirling storms.
—Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2022
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Sagittal coma is a distracting effect that draws stars with protruding spines and false color halos.
—PCMAG, 20 May 2024
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Focus assist, false color, and an array of scopes help in composing the perfect shot, while a mirror-mode is a nice nod to bloggers.
—Popular Science, 20 Apr. 2020
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This false color animation is also from the Cassini spacecraft.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2017
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The lens doesn't lose much (if any) contrast in these scenes, but internal reflections create areas of false color, the ghosting effect.
—PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2025
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The lens sometimes struggles with false colors and ghosting in flare when making images into the sun, not surprising given its large aperture.
—PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
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Dark streaks on Mars (presented in false color for clarity) indicate likely flows of salty water on the planet.
—Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2015
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The satellite image, rendered in false color, highlights the infrared signature of the fresh lava, which appears vividly in shades of red and yellow.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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This false color image, taken in near-infrared light, shows the raging eye of the 1,200-mile-wide storm at Saturn’s north pole.
—Ernie Mastroianni, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2017
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The lens shows no signs of false color (LoCA) in focus transitions or bright specular highlights.
—PCMAG, 20 Apr. 2024
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In the false color view, generated from infrared data, the bright green color is indicative of copious sulfur dioxide gas.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
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To clearly discern the flooding, the images are false color, employing a combination of visible and shortwave infrared light.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
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The images are actually composites of natural and false color, both from the Landsat 8 satellite.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2015
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Researchers then use false color to translate these otherwise invisible wavelengths into a visible image.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2023
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The lens does a good job of avoiding false color caused by longitudinal chromatic aberration (LoCA).
—PCMAG, 6 Jan. 2025
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The lens delivers clean bokeh with few distracting elements and no hint of false color, even when photographing subjects against complex backgrounds that include foliage, tree branches, and other potentially distracting elements.
—Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 5 Mar. 2026
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There's no sign of false color from the longitudinal type (LoCA) in focus transition areas in photos, around bright specular highlights, or on reflective metal surfaces in photos.
—PCMAG, 6 June 2024
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