Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Stealth eyeshadow
This is a natural WOW.
Most squids use controlled color and controlled luminescence to blend into the background or to express emotions and messages. The 'glass squid' uses light in an opposite way. Like many ocean creatures but unlike other squids, it's transparent .... EXCEPT for its big eyes in their big sockets. The eyes cast shadows on the ocean floor, defeating the purpose of transparency. Can't sneak up on fish when they can see the shadow coming. What to do? Cast a negative shadow. Use diffused light to illuminate the shadowed area.
WOW.
The light starts with bioluminescent bacteria like many other deep ocean critters, and the glass squid uses fiberoptics to channel and diffuse it.
WOW again.
Nature always gets there first. 
Labels: Grand Blueprint
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