Module 13 : Design-Nature Relationship
  Lecture 37 : Introduction, Wealth of Nature’s Design, and Butterfly
 

Introduction

Mankind hascontinuously tried to discover, explore and appreciate natural patterns by noticing details. Unfortunatelymost of ustend to miss or ignore the beauty of nature’s detail.The sensuous water-droplet on a lotus leaf (plate 1B); the crawling of a caterpillar; the intricate texture of tree bark; the flow of rippling water are so common yet hardly noticed with curiosity. The adaption of colour by the biotic society in the environment is perhaps the most amazing aspect.

Underlying the many changes and adaptations of patterns (camouflage?) that occur in nature provides safety and hidden unity. Nature’s own mechanism tries to build its own best position, location and energy saving until man disturbs the delicate balance.

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Plate 1A Spider web
1B Lotus Leaf
1C Butterfly
1D Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko

(Source:https://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=nature%27s+design+photography&revid=84406
1700&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bpcl=37189454&biw=1350&bih=602&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch
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; Nov. 5, 2012
1D: http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.in/2012/10/photo-of-day-satanic-leaf-tailed-gecko.html ; Nov. 5, 2012
Read more: http://www.williamneill.com/store/books/by-natures-design.html ; Nov.5, 2012)

The Wealth of Nature’s Design

The wonder of nature has surprised human beings for ever. In order to survive in nature every living being has to develop their defence mechanism. Certainly color plays extremely important role. Every living being has skin, fur or scale to protect themselves from pray or predator. The deceptive colors of skin, fur or scale often fool the prey or predator. Therefore, in nature living beings have to adopt one of the following strategies - camouflage and mimicry.In Nature cryptic coloration is utilized in many forms- changing fur color with the season, reflective scales on a fish, a lizard that looks like a leaf (plate 1D), or maybe the spotted coat of a Cheetah. Animals genetically mould into their environments and areexperts of the art of concealment.