Nature's hardest-to-reproduce colours recreated in exhibition
Naturally Brilliant Colour, Kew Gardens, London THESE beautiful, vibrant images are from a forthcoming exhibition exploring colour at Kew Gardens, London. The show highlights nature’s most brilliant hues, as well as the brightest human recreations of them. Lifescaped Advertisement What we perceive as colour is normally the result of certain wavelengths of light being absorbed by the coloured molecules in pigments while others are reflected to our eyes. But some of the colours we see are created by light reflecting off microscopic colourless structures on animals and plants. These are called...
Source: newscientist.com