structural color
1. Pigment granules create colors: damselflies
"The brilliant metallic colours of many Odonata, especially damselflies, derive from the structural arrangement of pigment granules. Pigment in the wings of such species as Agrion virgo is similarly distorted by light to produce resplendent shifti...
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2. STICK.S lightweight structural system
STICK.S represents the conclusions of a two-year research and development (R+D) dissertation for the MA in architecture. Inspired by the morphological performance of the human body structural system, this project seeks to defin...
3. ChromaFlair Color-Shifting Paints
From the website: ChromaFlair colors contain unique, multi-layer flakes that give paints, coatings, plastics, textiles and packaging the ability to change color when viewed from different angles. Each flake, created using a revolutionary thin-...
4. Carotenoids create yellow color: American goldfinch
"The coloration of feathers can be caused by carotenoids (usually producing yellow, orange and red), melanins (usually producing brown, black and grey), other pigments (such as found in some parrot feathers) or by nano-scale reflective tissues (us...
5. Nanofibers produce color: blue penguin
"Here, we report a new biophotonic nanostructure in the non-iridescent blue feather barbs of blue penguins (Eudyptula minor) composed of parallel β-keratin nanofibres organized into densely packed bundles...[A]nalysis of...the barb nanos...
6. Eyes improve foraging abilities: aye-aye
"While color vision perception is thought to be adaptively correlated with foraging efficiency for diurnal mammals, those that forage exclusively at night may not need color vision nor have the capacity for it. Indeed, although the basic condition...
7. Feathers produce non-iridescent colors: eastern bluebirds
"Some of the most vivid colors in the animal kingdom are created not by pigments, but by wavelength-selective scattering of light from nanostructures. Here we investigate quasi-ordered nanostructures of avian feather barbs which produce vivid non-...
8. Reflectance causes white color: cabbage butterfly
"The small white, P. [Pieris] rapae, offers an interesting example of the biology of wing coloration. Both sexes of this butterfly species are rather featureless for human eyes, except for slight differences in the black spots, small wing areas wh...
9. Bones: Form Follows Force
"The structural system of the human body consisting of bones, joints and muscles represents an efficient structural design model better adapted to dynamic factors and resistance than most of the currently designed structures and buildings which ar...
10. Hairs create colors: weevils
"Other insects, such as weevils, owe their magnificent sky blue or metallic green colours to a clothing of fine scaly hairs." (Wootton 1984:140)
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