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A dead butterfly may fit more "snugly" into the frame of a square pillow, but personally -- and aesthetics, after all, are rather subjective -- I would dispute
by jfk13 9y ago
A dead butterfly may fit more "snugly" into the frame of a square pillow, but personally -- and aesthetics, after all, are rather subjective -- I would dispute that it is "more aesthetically pleasing" than a living one.
(Disclaimer: this has long been a pet peeve of mine, too, as my wife could testify!)
- watty 9y agoYes, I didn't mean to speak for everyone - I'm sure many people prefer the living picture which has more emphasis on the body and less emphasis on the wings.
- 3131s 9y agoI definitely do. After seeing her drawings of a butterfly with correctly positioned wings, now I can't help but notice how bad the other more typical depiction looks.
- cannam 9y agoNot just the body, but also the layering or overlap of the wing segments which makes the sheathing mechanism apparent - that is very beautiful in itself (even if I don't know the right terms for these things). The typical image looks unnaturally stretched and two-dimensional in comparison. I found the article aesthetically as well as scientifically persuasive.
- amelius 9y agoJust look at it as a special projection method that has been applied to an image of a living butterfly :)