These are often iridescent, as in peacock feathers and nacreous shells such as of pearl oysters (Pteriidae) and Nautilus.
These are present as easily identifiable, discrete markings, rather than in patches spanning large areas of the body, which is often the case for the iridescent structural colour markings (blue and yellow) [ 47, 48].
Interestingly, comb plate cilia diffract light to produce a rainbow of colors and give ctenophores their characteristic iridescent appearance [ 34], which is often mistaken for bioluminescence.
Pottery from across the Renaissance Mediterranean world was often decorated with an iridescent metallic glaze called lustre, the colour and sheen of which is a down to nanoparticles of copper or silver.
They are all here in the opulent, often iridescent colors, surface cracklings and convulsive spatial drama (complete with occasional meteorlike chunks) of these paintings.
The collage of video, hand-drawn elements, and digital animation is pretty psychedelic with its ever-shifting and often iridescent color palette.
Columbite, hard, black (often iridescent), heavy oxide mineral of iron, manganese, and niobium, (Fe, Mn Nb2O6.
Structural coloration can produce the most brilliant colours, often iridescent.
The film is shot in iridescent colour.
Tight under his arm is an iridescent purple folder.
