valdary (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} valdary) wrote,@ 2009-08-30 14:43:00 |
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Dinosaurs in colour
A lot of obsolete picture books and some big work projects coming up for illustration artists.
They've been looking at bird feathers and identified the shape of cells that cause colour.
(as in butterflies many of the colours are in microscopic shapes that angle light a particular way and not in pigment)
Some bright spark looked at some fossilized feathers and identified the same cell shapes.
So, it may soon be possible to identify the actual colours that fossil birds and dinosaurs were when alive.
They have identified the cell shapes for blue and brown, more work looking at current bird feathers will hopefully identify further colours.
Look for big remakes of "Jurassic Park" and "Walking With Dinosaurs" in the next few years
Not to mention a lot of new children's textbooks.
A lot of obsolete picture books and some big work projects coming up for illustration artists.
They've been looking at bird feathers and identified the shape of cells that cause colour.
(as in butterflies many of the colours are in microscopic shapes that angle light a particular way and not in pigment)
Some bright spark looked at some fossilized feathers and identified the same cell shapes.
So, it may soon be possible to identify the actual colours that fossil birds and dinosaurs were when alive.
They have identified the cell shapes for blue and brown, more work looking at current bird feathers will hopefully identify further colours.
Look for big remakes of "Jurassic Park" and "Walking With Dinosaurs" in the next few years
Not to mention a lot of new children's textbooks.
