Project
Wing Scale
2023-11-19
An algorithmic visualization of butterfly and moth wing microstructure, rendered in real-time with Three.js. ~4,500 individually modeled scales oscillate in a standing wave, with structural coloration and iridescence modeled through custom GLSL shaders.
Lepidopteran scales that are usually invisible to the naked eye can collectively produce the appearance of fluid motion, much like pixels resolving into image at distance.