colour countdown

December 20, 2021 12:10 PM

The colour countdown "To celebrate the end of a dark and difficult year, we’re rejoicing in all things colourful! Join us on our journal blogs to discover how jellyfish see colour, why animals have iridescence, whether copycats actually catch out predators and much more!"

Posts so far:
Day 1: Animal Defences
Day 2: Cephalopod vision
Day 3: Spider body colouration
Day 4: How do birds see the world?
Day 5: Insect mimicry
Day 6: Jellyfish vision
Day 7: Why are some mammals black and white?
Day 8: Iridescence!!
Day 9: Cryptic flower colouration
Day 10: Convergent optical illusions
Day 11: Camouflage as a window on perception
Day 12: The colours of (nano)space
Day 13: Evolution of fish vision
Day 14: Thermoregulation

posted by dhruva (5 comments total)

Aaaaaaaahhhhh I am so looking forward to this! Thank you for bringing it here!
posted by sciatrix at 12:20 PM on December 20, 2021 [2 favorites]

This looks fantastic and beautiful, thanks!! Saving to read over holiday of days.
posted by Bionic Raven at 10:00 PM on December 20, 2021

Warning: autoplay music
posted by Thorzdad at 5:11 AM on December 21, 2021

So cool, thank you for posting this.
posted by LobsterMitten at 7:04 AM on December 22, 2021

Can't, on first glance, find any reference to the hooloovoo, the supersentient shade of the color blue.

These are fantastic. Color perception and color theory is one of my intense and secret little obsessions.
posted by adoarns at 6:03 AM on December 23, 2021