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April 14, 2008 by Tien Chiu

Almost halfway done with feathering

After several more hours of work, I’m almost done with the green scale feathers:

I’m a little miffed that the beauty of the feathers doesn’t show through.  It gives you an idea of how it looks, but minus the excitement – in reality the feathers are beautifully iridescent green, not flat green-brown as they appear in the photo.  I suppose something about the lens flattens the diffraction-grating-generated iridescence.  (Peacock feathers, in case you didn’t know, are actually brown.  What creates the illusion of color is a diffraction grating not unlike that in a python’s skin (which has rainbow iridescence if you look closely in bright light).  If you look at a peacock feather through a polarizing filter, it looks brown, not multicolor.)

Minor commentary on physics aside, I’m very pleased with this piece so far.  I believe it will be one of my most magnificent tutus yet.  🙂

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