Post by Caylus Ark on Jun 6, 2018 16:46:23 GMT
This appeared on my youtube recommended this morning. It is about blue butterflies. It's actually...pretty interesting stuff.
this "awesome iridescent blue" in the wing comes from "the microscopic structure of the wing itself".
"all of this happens because of the way light bends as it moves from air into another material"
So it's about light obviously, because it's about color...
Here's something trippy though, the blue butterfly isn't blue because of pigmentation.
It's blue because there are gaps in the cellular structure of the wings
according to the narrator these wing scale cells look like "tiny christmas trees" and the branches of these trees is where the light passes through
pine gap.
and as light passes through the gaps, it syncs up with the refraction of the color blue due to the way the light bends against the morphology.
but basically, if the cells in the wing scale of these blue butterflies were not shaped "like tiny christmas trees", their wings wouldn't refract into the color blue
there isn't a color insomuch as an angle
