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别再画那些“死蝴蝶”了
Enough with the dead butterflies
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科学插画师 Emily Damstra 撰文指出：几乎所有艺术和商业作品中的蝴蝶都画成翅膀竖起展开的姿态——那是死蝴蝶被针固定后的样子，活蝴蝶休息时翅膀是合拢竖立的。她呼吁插画师和设计师改用蝴蝶真实的活体姿态。
为什么经久不衰：它揭示了一个人人见过却从未察觉的视觉惯例，读后会从此以新的眼光看待图像与现实的差距。
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这是媒体美化现实的又一例证，值得警惕间接信息被加工的程度
很高兴有人指出这一点。现在明白了活蝴蝶其实不长那样，我以后再也无法忽视。这类似影视媒体为追求美感和熟悉感使用的各种手法：上膛枪声、黑客画面、拳打音效等。我们大量信息都经由间接渠道获得，有多少影像和声音被加工过而我们并不知情？我曾亲眼见到实物时惊讶地发现媒体呈现并不准确。
laplace2查看英文原文
I'm glad to have this pointed out to me. It's so "obvious" now that live butterflies don't look that way, I'll never not notice this now. It's similar to all the tricks video media uses for aesthetics and common familiarity: gun cocking noises, computer hacking images, punch sound effects, and the like. It also remind me of location specific tricks, such as how the pyramids of Giza, Egypt are shown in pictures, or how wildlife photographers sometimes do staged photoshoots. I think it's a very good thing to be aware of this. So much of our information is received through indirect means, how many things do we watch on video without understanding how the image and sound has been enhanced? I've been surprised before to see something in person and realize the media representation is not accurate.
死蝴蝶姿态更美观，可能是文化 ingrained 也可能本身更优雅
说实话，死蝴蝶的姿态确实在美学上更讨喜。我说不清这是因为文化惯性还是形状本身更优雅。不过我很欢迎这个知识，它让我在聚会上多了一个卖弄的机会。
murbard2查看英文原文
To be honest, the dead butterflies do look aesthetically more pleasing. I can't tell if it's because the image is culturally ingrained or if the shape is simply more elegant. That said, I welcome this knowledge which opens a whole new opportunity for me to be pedantic at parties.
展开翅膀的蝴蝶是一种纹章式符号，而非写实描绘
我妻子的看法很有意思：也许应该把插画蝴蝶视为一种图像符号……小孩子最早学会画的“蝴蝶”（其实就是死蝴蝶）会有卷曲的触角和上扬展开的翅膀。这是一种纹章式图像，就像站立的狮子——真狮子不长那样，但符号传达了它要表达的意思。
rrauenza查看英文原文
My wife had an interesting perspective I'll share: "Maybe it helps to think of illustrated butterflies as a kind of iconography...One of the first things little kids (especially girls) learn to draw is “a butterfly” (meaning, a dead butterfly). It will not have anything like natural coloring, and might have big friendly eyes, but will definitely have two curling antennae and spread, uplifted wings. It’s a heraldic image, like a lion rampant. Lions don’t look like that, but the symbol says what it needs to." Now all I can think of is the perl6 butterfly, Camelia...
同样的“标本姿态”问题也出现在其他昆虫图标上
最近音频设备厂商 Behringer 预告复刻历史合成器 Wasp，连原来的黄蜂图标也照搬了。看到公告我立刻想起这篇文章——那黄蜂的翅膀姿态很奇怪，据我所知那是只被固定标本的死黄蜂，原因和死蝴蝶一样。
SeanLuke查看英文原文
Recently Behringer, a musician's audio equipment manufacturer, teased a clone of the Wasp, a historic synthesizer. They copied the design language down to the original wasp icon as can be seen in this image. https://media.sweetwater.com/api/i/q-82__ha-fc89e45000b982eb__hmac-58da05cb846e98105a040618811ae9bad8a093b2/images/items/750/BehrWASP-large.jpg Seeing this announcement immediately reminded me of this article. A strange wing position for a wasp. So far as I know, that wasp is dead and mounted, for the same reason that the butterflies are dead.
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