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Iridescence

2 articles

- Arts
The Quest to Mimic Nature’s Trickiest Colors
- By Eli Kintisch
- July 13, 2015
An artist struggles to reproduce the iridescence of the natural world.
- Arts
The Quest to Understand—and Mimic—Nature’s Trickiest Colors
- By Eli Kintisch
- April 8, 2014
The West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)AlessandroZocc via Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . It was an image in a book of a sparkly blue fish—a West Indian Ocean coelacanth—that inspired German painter Franziska Schenk to begin a project that would occupy much of her adult life. “It […]