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▲ RheingoldRiver 11 hours ago

That is a dead butterfly [0] being reanimated, not a live butterfly flying

[0]: https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

▲flopsamjetsam 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Until I clicked on the link, I thought you were just using a metaphor :)

▲pertique 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'd also link to a recent HN post [0] exploring butterfly flight. The top comment shows the actual flight pattern of a butterfly.

Perhaps zombie butterfly fly differently, but otherwise it's doubly dead.

This isn't a real nit, but I figured I throw it out there anyway.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42183079

▲beepbooptheory 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ugh one of those things I kinda hate to know now.

▲tail_exchange 9 hours ago | parent [-]

It ruined pretty much all butterfly drawings for me. It's the kind of thing that is better not knowing lol

▲stevage 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I think it's overblown. It made me pay more attention to butterflies in the real world and what I see is when landed they often flap their wings intermittently. So I just think of the drawings with wings open as catching one of those moments.

▲jerkstate 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I agree with your sentiment, the human body is sometimes considered most beautiful with the limbs extended in dance, that does not mean it is always posed that way. I lay in the "corpse pose" every day, it does not mean I am dead.

▲herodotus 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thanks for providing that link. What an amazing artist!

▲MoroL 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Agree 100%. Needs iteration. Thanks for the link.

▲teach 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ce n'est pas un papillon.