
Creature with the Crystal Skin
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How to Blend in With Your Environment
Transparency has the ability to create very high fidelity camouflage. There's no limitation on the colors or patterns available because you're just actually seeing the background. The glass winged butterflies are able to prevent their wings from being too reflective by having these little, tiny nano pillars of wax on the surface of the transparent membranes that sort of break up a light patterns.
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