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Stavenga http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2518-6177 Computational Physics, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Casper J. van der Kooi Casper J. van der Kooi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0613-7633 Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Bodo D. Wilts Bodo D. Wilts http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2727-7128 Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Doekele G. Stavenga Doekele G. Stavenga http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2518-6177 Computational Physics, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Casper J. van der Kooi Casper J. van der Kooi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0613-7633 Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Bodo D. Wilts Bodo D. Wilts http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2727-7128 Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Published:02 August 2017https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2017.0407Supplemental Materialrsif20170407supp1.doc (856.5 KB) Previous ArticleNext Article VIEW FULL TEXTDOWNLOAD PDF FiguresRelatedReferencesDetailsCited by Pan B, Gao W, Li Y, Jony I and Yang S (2025) Preparation and Applications of Photonic Crystal Structural Color Fibers, AATCC Journal of Research, 10.1177/24723444241295410, 12:1, Online publication date: 1-Jan-2025. Yu Y, Weidlich A, Walter B, d'Eon E and Marschner S (2024) Appearance Modeling of Iridescent Feathers with Diverse Nanostructures, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 10.1145/3687983, 43:6, (1-18), Online publication date: 19-Dec-2024. 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