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July 3 at 9:35 pm
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Greta oto or "brush-footed butterfly" (courtesy of Cee Bee) - http://pixdaus.com/single.php?... - Mitchell Tsai
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that's amazing. i've never seen anything like that - Cee Bee
Wish I could take a butterfly picture like this. Anyone know what it's called? I'd love to see the wikipedia page. - Mitchell Tsai
here ya go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... - Cee Bee
http://photos1.blogger.com/blo... - Cee Bee
+10 Cee Bee: Thanks a whole ton! Did you find any other favorite butterflies at Wikipedia? -- Greta oto is a brush-footed butterfly, and is a member of the clearwing clade; its wings are transparent. Its most common English name is glasswing, and its Spanish name is "espejitos", which means "little mirrors." - Mitchell Tsai
Wow! Cee Bee's second link is a whole page of these "Glasswing" butterflies. See http://friendfeed.com/e/c679b1... http://photos1.blogger.com/pho... - Mitchell Tsai
I have never seen this before...ahhh I love mother nature! - Anna Haro
wow. in houston there is a butterfly pavilion where you can walk amongst thousands of butterflies. they land on you...they only live two weeks... :( - edythe
wow, that is cool - RAPatton
they have a room like that at franklin park conservatory here - RAPatton
wow! - shandiz
Is that real or photoshopped? - Barak B
@Barak Real. See the wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... and this page of other glasswing butterflies http://friendfeed.com/e/c679b1... http://photos1.blogger.com/pho... - Mitchell Tsai
Photoshop? I love how computer graphics has gotten so much better over the past 26 years since TRON http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...). When TRON was shot, there were no on-screen previews. The first time anyone saw photos was on a 35 mm screen. If you watch the movie closely, you'll notice that some shots have the bad/good guys in reverses colors. It was too expensive to re-render those shots. :-) At the very end of TRON's creation, slow-real-time skeleton diagrams were finally available. - Mitchell Tsai
The TRON programmers wrote all the cycle-path graphics mathematically, rather than with a real-time screen, just praying they would look ok on-screen. Star Wars was really tough to design in those days of _SLOW_ computers. A simple picture graph (ala Microsoft Excel) of data used to take me 5-15 min using a microcomputer uplink to a Burroughs mainframe. - Mitchell Tsai
Extraordinary. What a wonderful example of nature's beauty at its most striking. - Bob Kingsley