Talk:Crystal Volcano/@comment-5116140-20130119012542/@comment-5116140-20130119034721

@OiOi Excellent.

Either transparent or translucent would be accepted! Well done!

Translucent is best scientifically, but a graphics arts person migt choose the other option.

Explanation: As the ejecta particles move, they acquire some of the color from whatever is behind them. When they travel over the green  lawn tiles or the green outside the village they acquire much of this green color from the see-through background and look like sparkling emeralds.

In  my village, there is a large blue river. As the volcanic ejecta fly over the river,  they look like sparkling blue sapphires!

Because the animation particles are translucent, they acquire much of the color of whatever lies behind them!

I am glad you were the one to solve it, as your volcano with green tiles below it and other colors in the background above it really was the Rosetta stone giving the clue.

And I thought I was hallucinating at first!