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All color is a texture, a play of light vibrating against the very structure of the
world. This was understood over two thousand years ago when Lucretius wrote of a cloth
torn apart thread by thread, its crimson dye slowly “breath[ing] out its components before
the shreds revert to seeds of things.” That color is not merely superficial but is in fact a
microscopic shape creating traps and mirrors for light would have been self-evident to
the medieval painter grinding pigment into oil, and even more so for those early humans
smudging clay and burnt bones onto cave walls. Traveling backwards in time, …