"Parallel Universe"

Butterfly on Rudbeckia flower (which has a pattern on its petals invisible for us; well at least for most of us). Human and (simulated, UV mapped as blue) butterfly vision (preproduction still for BBC's "Invisible Worlds" series)

Dr Klaus Schmitt said:

Butterfly on Rudbeckia flower (which has a pattern on its petals invisible for us; well at least for most of us). Human and (simulated, UV mapped as blue) butterfly vision (preproduction still for BBC's "Invisible Worlds" series)

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Hi Klaus,

That's a very nice combination of science and art.
Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Bart

Thanks Bart. Exactly that was the idea behind it, to draw in a viewers attention and to induce thoughts about what might be shown there.

Dr Klaus Schmitt said:

Butterfly on Rudbeckia flower (which has a pattern on its petals invisible for us; well at least for most of us). Human and (simulated, UV mapped as blue) butterfly vision (preproduction still for BBC's "Invisible Worlds" series)

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Klaus,

I really like the design and teaching quality of this picture. It does help folk get the concept of "parallel universe". That worked with Rachel and the rose. The synthesis here is wonderful.

Asher

Thanks Asher. Well actually I had to fight with myself about the concept of having
to cut through that flower (image) to make that side-a-side image happen and
fuse the two individual images into one. First I wanted to do it vertically to also
show two halfes of the butterfly in visible and invisible UV, but decided against
that, to also convey the idea of how that butterfly may see its world (a very
crude approximation as butterflies can see UV, Blue, Green and Red (four colors
= tetrachromatic vision as compared to human trichromatic vision). Well, glad
that it worked out for you!