The phrase
"butterfly wings" refers to the delicate and colorful wings of a butterfly. It is often used to describe something light, fragile, or ephemeral.
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The incorporation
of butterfly wings (of which she shot a progress video here) enhances the piece's overall sense of movement.
The changes are subtle — but in an aesthetic based on perfect order and executed as if
with butterfly wings, every detail is significant.
Finally, we got some colourful material and cut it
into butterfly wing shapes and glued them along the sides of the butterfly body, then left them to dry.
I am hosting another giveaway this week and you can win yourself a necklace made out of
real butterfly wings.
With curved
metal butterfly wings, spread out, creating a comfortable seat, this garden bench is the perfect outdoor conversation nook!
I
love butterfly wing jewelry — and it was nice to read to read about the company's ethical practices.
The artist loses himself in a beard or «botanical elements,» including leaves and
butterfly wings pressed against paper.
Including such papers is as meaningful as including all the papers on the colours
of butterfly wings.
Single gyroids reflect almost all of the light that hits them, but only certain colors are reflected
in butterfly wings because of the way the chitin molecules are arranged, researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In Santa Monica, they built a garage with ocean views; I wrote «hey are going for LEED certification, which should be a challenge for an above grade parking garage, even if it was made from site - grown bamboo and ventilated by
flapping butterfly wings.»
Waka Nakanishi, an organic chemist at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan, has designed a nanocar with two sets of «flaps» that are intended to flutter
like butterfly wings when the molecule is energized by the STM tip.
elevates the classic basic with a pleated mint green Vionnet maxi and one awesome statement accessory: a pair of Sophia Webster shoes with
butterfly wings at the heel (great, now Mariah Carey's stuck in our head).
Fashioned
from butterfly wings and household paint, Damien Hirst's «Psalm» paintings combine the dizzying symmetry of a kaleidoscope with the radiant beauty of a rose window.
This Sassy Cuddle Bug bouncer has a very nice design which uses the blanket in the form of
butterfly wings as strategy to keep babies warm and well - snugged.
Look
for butterfly wing patterns or tiara patterns or jewelled lashes — there is an endless choice.
For instance, many bird feathers and
butterfly wings get their brilliant colors in part from nanoscale texturing (SN: 6/11/16, p. 32).
Carefully she emptied the contents of the box into her lap — a pitted church key, a Coke bottle cap, three pennies, a nickel, a handful of the hard red berries, a brittle, brightly -
colored butterfly wing.
-- Telling your child to sit up straight and imagine that there are
long butterfly wings are raising from their back
Structural color is common in bird feathers and
butterfly wings today, but finding such features in the fossil record can be tricky.
Next to me, another grad student examined a fragment of a brown and
gold butterfly wing — Patel's lab is also knocking out butterfly genes with CRISPR to see how they build wing color.
The resulting photonic crystals reflect the light in certain colors, a phenomenon observed in nature on apparently
colorful butterfly wings.
«Other types of structural colour — for
example butterfly wings or opals — have a specific pattern in their structure which results in vibrant colour, but to produce white, the structure needs to be as random as possible.»
Butterfly wing image by and (c) 2008 Derek Ramsey (Ram - Man), licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2
Its oversized style and
butterfly wing sleeves will not flatter a curvy figure, instead, it will add weight on the wearer.
Sophia Webster's «Chiara» sandals are embellished with the label's
signature butterfly wings - this season, they are made from digitally printed satin and embroidered for a 3D effect.
When I set eyes on this
white butterfly wing printed silk dress I knew it was the perfect choice for Melbourne Cup.
I may have had a second's pause when I pulled this beautiful butterfly dress out of my closet and spotted the perfect vintage butterfly bag nestled on the shelf and my sparkly belt that
emulates butterfly wings.
We had to wait 18 months to go from Kindle 2's screen to Kindle 3's eInk Pearl screen and perhaps it's another 18 months till we get
shimmery butterfly wings to go with our Kindles.
Even just the power of the first track Dragonborn makes me want to perform shouts and
pick butterfly wings.
Mark Grotjahn's innate connection to the natural world is channeled into abstract compositions that engage with various motifs,
including butterfly wings, water, and rays of light.
Jennifer Trask, October Necklace, 2002, fabricated and constructed 18k royal gold, 18k green gold, 14k palladium, 22k gold with swallowtail, monarch, queen, and silvery
checkerspot butterfly wings; yellow soil from Verona, Italy and Spain; red soil from Arizona; ring - necked pheasant feathers; guinea fowl feathers; iron filings; black sand; and rusted steel in mineral crystal and reticles.
Some are calligraphic; others
suggest butterfly wings, spider webs or jellyfish; still others explore eccentric, subtly erotic geometric relationships.