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Blue Morph

Technical and Interaction Design role on the Blue Morph installation, built around the structural-color nanostructure of Morpho butterfly wing scales.

Scanning electron micrograph of overlapping Morpho-butterfly wing scales: rounded, ridged plates layered like roof tiles, rendered in deep grayscale, with one scale at upper-center catching highlight.
SEM imagery from the Blue Morph source archive.
Role
Technical and Interaction Design
Organization
Independent / artist-led collaboration
Years
c. 2014
Category
Art-science
Status
Completed

What it is. Blue Morph is a project the studio contributed to in a Technical and Interaction Design role. The work draws on the structural-color nanostructure of Morpho butterfly wing scales, where color comes from light interference across lamellar ridges rather than pigment. The Wix archive carries 27 scanning electron micrographs of those scales. Two are shown above.

Closer SEM view of two Morpho-butterfly wing scales, showing the parallel lamellar ridges that produce structural color through light interference rather than pigment.
SEM imagery from the Blue Morph source archive.

Collaborators

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