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- From: carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft)
- Subject: Re: Blue Sky
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.185507.1565@aoa.aoa.utc.com>
- Organization: Adaptive Optics Associates
- References: <10018@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> <1992Jul23.010953.6388@math.ucla.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:55:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.010953.6388@math.ucla.edu> barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
- >> And I find it peculiar that although there are blue birds, there are
- >> no blue raptors that I know of. Can you imagine the advantage a sky-
- >> blue hawk would have? His prey would have a very difficult time seeing
- >Actually, he should be blue on the bottom and dark on top,
- >so that he ends up blending in when viewed from above or below.
- >Thats "why" fish are silver on the bottom and dark on top, perhaps
- x
- You should move this thread to sci.military, where you probably can
- get some refs to disruptive coloration, dazzle, and other tricks
- of camouflage. The short answer is: objects are made invisible by
- matching irradiance, not color, to their background, or by breaking
- their natural lines (e.g. bridgework on a ship) up into randomized
- patterns. Many birds such as the killdeer have bright stripes on
- their body which helps them disappear into the grass.
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