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Iridescences : The Physical Colors of Insects /

By: Berthier, Serge [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.Description: X, 160 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780387341200.Subject(s): Physics | Invertebrates | Optics | Electrodynamics | Solid state physics | Biophysics | Biological physics | Spectroscopy | Microscopy | Physics | Optics and Electrodynamics | Invertebrates | Solid State Physics | Spectroscopy and Microscopy | Biophysics and Biological PhysicsDDC classification: 535.2 | 537.6 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Iridescence -- Why Colors -- Lepidoptera Description and Scales of Observation -- Coleoptera Description and Observation Scales -- Changing Colors: Structures or Pigments? -- Physical Colors, Chemical Colors Basics of Solid State Optics -- 1-Dimensional Structures: Interferences -- 2-Dimensional Structures: Interferences and Diffraction -- 3-Dimensional Structures: Crystalline Diffraction -- Amorphous Structures: Scattering -- Pigments and Pigmentary Colors -- Thermoregulation and Spectral Selectivity -- Vision and Colorimetry.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: Butterflies and Coleopterons are among the most colorful animals that we are lucky to observe. It is certainly not for our sake that nature indulges itself into such brightness, indeed this very beauty is vital. Although the present book is essentially the work of a physicist, its main objective is to be fundamentally trans-disciplinary. To understand the origins of those bright colors without looking at their evolution potential, to focus on the question "how" neglecting the question "why", would not only be unsatisfying, but it would also harm our understanding of the phenomena. The two aspects clarify one another and cannot be separated. This book can be read at various rhythms so that there is something in it for everyone. Biologists will find a clear and in-depth study of the different physical phenomena generating colors; that is all the things that we once learnt or which we often hear, but forgot. It will constitute a boundless "biomimetical" inspiration for physicists and engineers, for if physics is simple, the combinations of effects and the structures involved are extremely complex and original. As concerns students and teachers, this book will constitute a great base for practical works and it will finally fill with wonder those repelled by equations.
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Iridescence -- Why Colors -- Lepidoptera Description and Scales of Observation -- Coleoptera Description and Observation Scales -- Changing Colors: Structures or Pigments? -- Physical Colors, Chemical Colors Basics of Solid State Optics -- 1-Dimensional Structures: Interferences -- 2-Dimensional Structures: Interferences and Diffraction -- 3-Dimensional Structures: Crystalline Diffraction -- Amorphous Structures: Scattering -- Pigments and Pigmentary Colors -- Thermoregulation and Spectral Selectivity -- Vision and Colorimetry.

Butterflies and Coleopterons are among the most colorful animals that we are lucky to observe. It is certainly not for our sake that nature indulges itself into such brightness, indeed this very beauty is vital. Although the present book is essentially the work of a physicist, its main objective is to be fundamentally trans-disciplinary. To understand the origins of those bright colors without looking at their evolution potential, to focus on the question "how" neglecting the question "why", would not only be unsatisfying, but it would also harm our understanding of the phenomena. The two aspects clarify one another and cannot be separated. This book can be read at various rhythms so that there is something in it for everyone. Biologists will find a clear and in-depth study of the different physical phenomena generating colors; that is all the things that we once learnt or which we often hear, but forgot. It will constitute a boundless "biomimetical" inspiration for physicists and engineers, for if physics is simple, the combinations of effects and the structures involved are extremely complex and original. As concerns students and teachers, this book will constitute a great base for practical works and it will finally fill with wonder those repelled by equations.

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