Butterfly wing patterns create powerful motion illusions

Jolyon Troscianko · 1K views · 2026 · 13:04

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Examines how butterfly wing patterns and flight create visual illusions to mislead predators.

Linked by 4 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including ycombinator.com, exeter.ac.uk, jolyon.co.uk, yacak.com.