(I hope I’m not double posting. The board went weird on me during my first try.)
This is TwoTone the cat. He’s a very sweet kitty with a two colored coat like I’ve never seen or heard of before. He has a solid black top coat, and a shorter, softer undercoat that is snowy white.
My Gwen is colored like that - she’s a dilute tortiseshell, but if you part her hair her undercoat is white. And when I brush her, all the hair in the brush looks white.
Surely those hairs can’t change color halfway through growth - if the hair shaft is two-tone, why don’t the white bits end up on the outside of the fur?
Smokes are common in persians I raised them for a while. I had blue smokes, white undercoat, gray outer coat, black smokes, like the one pictured, and one red smoke. Marmalade outer coat, with white under. I almost kept that one, but she wasn’t very bright.
The cat in the picture is not like that. Most cats, have two layers of hair. The exception to that are the Rex breeds that are missing the outer layer of hair.
Most of the time, normally haired cats outer and inner layers are the same color, the exception here are the “smoke” colors, who have a white inner coat and colored outer coat.
I’m not questioning the effect you’ve pointed out, but it’s isn’t the same thing.