Colored reflections from the black-billed magpie feathers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6285, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Vigneron, Jean Pol ^a   Lousse, Virginie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Natural photonic structures; Reflectance

Indexed keywords

MAGPIE FEATHERS; NATURAL PHOTONIC STRUCTURES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FILM THEORY;

BIODIVERSITY; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; CRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 33750033594     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.682243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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