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拜托，别再画死蝴蝶了（2017）
Please, enough with the dead butterflies (2017)
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科学插画师 Emily Damstra 指出：插画、动画和 emoji 里的蝴蝶几乎总是双翅平展，就像被针插在标本盒里的死蝴蝶；而活着的蝴蝶停歇时翅膀多呈合拢或斜举姿态，前翅也常向后收。她解释这种画法为何流行、为何不准确，并给出正确的描绘方式。
为什么经久不衰：典型的“一旦看出来就再也忘不掉”的观察文，提醒我们大量日常图像其实来自对标本的模仿而非对活物的观察。
HN 评论精选
图像惯例会固化成我们对现实的默认认知。
典型的“一旦看出来就再也忘不掉”的文章。它是“艺术模仿艺术”的好例子：屏幕上用除颤器电击让病人复活、往心脏打肾上腺素、一记重击让坏人昏睡过去。艺术家的戏剧化描绘变成陈词滥调，陈词滥调又成了我们的默认常识。偶尔停下来想想，我们的世界观有多少是被这类谬误塑造的，是件好事。
dalbasal查看英文原文
One of those "once you see it" articles. It's a good example of art imitating art. On screen depictions of ER doctors zapping patients back to life with a defibrillator. Adrenaline shots to the heart. Gently putting bad guys to sleep with a concussive blow to the head. Artists' dramatic depictions become cliche, and cliche becomes our norm. Good to stop and ponder, on occasion, how much of our worldview is shaped by such fallacies.
一串同类“专家给 emoji 挑错”的趣味链接。
相关的文章，都是专家给 emoji 的准确度打分：昆虫学家给蚂蚁 emoji 打分；哪个剪刀 emoji 是闭合的；给每个马 emoji 打分；给“带环行星”emoji 排名；评蒸汽机车 emoji；聊望远镜 emoji；以及我自己的：用 emoji 降落伞跳伞你能活下来吗？
darekkay查看英文原文
Related posts, where experts rate the accuracy of emojis: - Entomologist rates ant emojis: https://www.boredpanda.com/entomologist-rates-ant-emojis/ - Which emoji scissors close: https://wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html - A thread of rating every horse emoji: https://twitter.com/jelenawoehr/status/1191872816372600832 - Ranking the "Ringed Planet" emojis: https://twitter.com/physicsJ/status/1232662211438370817 - Reviewing Steam Loco Emojis: https://twitter.com/BisTheFairy/status/1192557730709622790 - Talk about Telescope emojis: https://mobile.twitter.com/BeckePhysics/status/1233414553607819267 - Would you survive a skydive with an emoji parachute? (my own post): https://darekkay.com/blog/parachute-emoji/
无用但极有趣，正是好内容的样本。
这既好笑又让人长见识。我觉得以后看蝴蝶图片都会想起这篇文章。这也是我心目中优秀的 HN 内容：不一定有用，但确实勾起了我的好奇心。
montenegrohugo查看英文原文
This is absolutely hilarious and illuminating at the same time. Don't think I'll be able to look at butterfly pictures without remembering this article. It's also a great example of what I'd consider good HN content. Not necessarily useful or anything, but it certainly tickled my curiosity.
反例：有些活蝴蝶确实呈展翅姿态，作者的说法不该被绝对化。
原文说有些较小的蝴蝶翅膀位置确实接近被针插的标本。但我实际见过一些很大的蝴蝶，飞起来的样子几乎就是“展翅的死蝴蝶标本”。我想拍下来却没拍好。这篇文章刚出时我觉得有意思，但亲眼见过活蝴蝶长得和文中说“不该这样”的一模一样之后，我不打算再传播“这些蝴蝶图片都是错的”这个说法了。我这辈子见过成千上万只蝴蝶，大多数确实前翅靠后得多，但 2019 年 12 月度假时看到这些大蝴蝶活像动画电影里那种“错误”的翅膀，觉得挺有趣。
executesorder66查看英文原文
> There are exceptions, of course. It seems that some of the smaller butterflies may exhibit wing positions fairly close to that of a dead, pinned specimen I've actually seen some really large butterflies that look pretty much like the "pinned wings dead butterfly" when it flies. I tried to film it, but couldn't get a good shot. I found this article interesting when it came out, but after seeing living butterflies that look exactly like it says they shouldn't, I'm not going to spread the idea that all these butterfly images are wrong. I have seen thousands of butterflies in my life, and yes, most of them have their forewings much further back. Not that I ever paid too close attention, even after reading this article for the first time. It was just a striking image when I saw these huge butterflies on holiday in December 2019, and they looked like a stereotypical animated movie aesthetic butterflies with the "wrong" wings, and I thought it was amusing.
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