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neb says:

wow, that is beautiful. nature is the best architect.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Josh Russell says:

wow, you're getting great colour and detail out of your new canon... nice stuff!
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

fmg2001 says:

Amazing.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Th@fred says:

wow look at all the detail! nature is the master engineer :-)
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

soniki says:

It is amazing, how much knowledge in the very litlle things of nature...
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

GustavoG moved to http://23hq.com/GustavoG says:

Care to describe what emerges from what? :)
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Joi says:

I really think that the structure of the wings and the shape of the wings emerging from natural evolution is rather amazing - the order in disorder. I would challenge an engineer to come up with such an elegant design. Unless it was the flying spaghetti monster I suppose. ;-)
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

♥ Moa Maria says:

Amazing shot! (Really scary, but still amazing :)
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Darko Hristov says:

wow, amazing structure
great capture
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

morph33 says:

Engineers are quite good at copying - the rib and membrane design illustrated in the dragonfly's wing is quite common in the aeronatical industry (but nowadays the ribs tend to be integrally formed using ultra high strain plastic deformation on prepared diffusion bonded laminar plates).

It has long been the desire of many engineers/material scientists to produce a strain responsive material (metal, polymer, composite etc.) that responds 'biologically' in adapting to its loading (Nature does this so well).

Best we have so far, apart from actual bio-structures (which are ultra-efficiently adapted to their environments) are genetic algorithms which can design (really, they mathematically evolve) relatively simple efficient shapes co-adapted to their loading/ecology.
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duong999999999 says:

mr_tat
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

ricky39 says:

good shot.
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thinkfromscratch says:

amazing work!

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johnmartine63 says:

amazing shot.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Pix L's says:

Like little stained-glass windows :o)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Andy at Devon Photography says:

That's just stunning, I love it.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Camilla says:

Lovely and functional.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

ComputerHotline says:

Thanks for licensing this image as CC "by" !
Your photo is uploaded here :
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under the terms of the Creative Commons "by" license.

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Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Tree Joi says:

Hi Joichi, The detail of the wing venation is awesome here, as is the brilliant composition. As an amateur insect buff, I think it is worth mentioning that the dark black veins emerging from the thorax were once like open tubes, pumping hemolymph (blood) to give the wings shape when the dragonfly nymph first emerged from its aquatic body to take on its new airborne adult form. Once the adult wings unfold from the nymph wing buds, their shape is maintained by letting those veins dry out and the hemolymph stops pumping. Morph33 would like this stuff in his biomimetics musings 19 months before this.
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

Joi says:

That's very interesting!
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