...a fascinating read on 'color science' as practiced by butterflies

[josephandrews222]

...an 'easy' read here:

In a first, scientists captured growth of butterfly wings inside chrysalis on video

MIT team replaced part of a pupa's cuticle with a glass window for experiments.

arstechnica.com

Dippin' Dots was once known as 'The Ice Cream of the Future'.

The science in the link above strikes me as 'biologically-assisted printing'...

Is what butterflies do 'The Printing of the Future'?

 

[Joules]

Cool subject!

I think it is also worth digging into in a visual manner, here are a couple videos that I particularly enjoyed.

Timelapse of butterfly wing growth:

Genetics of wing patterns:

And two videos going both into the photography as well as the science of how the wings get their color:

That last one in particular features some amazing pictures of the nano structures on the scales.

On the one hand, it is amazing what sorts of technology us humans came up with, and on the other, sort of humbling how little we can replicate of the crazy mechanisms found in the biological world.

 

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Thanks for sharing this information, josephandrews.

...And thank you for sharing those videos, Joule.