Timeline for Could you breed livestock with structurally colored wool?
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| Feb 16 at 21:11 | comment | added | Pelinore | @VakusDrake lacking any other method to reliably achieve it in clothing Iridescence could be the big draw certainly ;) and science type dudes (with magic tools or otherwise) are notorious for doing things just for the hell of it anyway ;) given viewed images of golden mole rats iridescence can be done. | |
| Feb 16 at 19:19 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | @Pelinore Realized hard science was asking a bit much and swapped it. The big advantage I was imagining to this having over just natural dyes is you would be able to do more colors and get iridescence maybe? Since the angle of viewing seems like it would matter for the first mechanism I proposed | |
| Feb 16 at 19:07 | history | edited | Vakus Drake |
It may be too hard to find citations for this
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| Feb 16 at 15:29 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 16 at 10:28 | comment | added | Pelinore | You won't get the sharply defined patterns you get in peacocks feathers, hair (or wool) isn't held stiffly in place like a feathers individual filaments with their hooks so that's not going to be possible, particularly if you want usable wool, single colours and broad patterns (blue on the back with a cream belly and pink socks or whatever) should be doable, presuming you want to use wool as wool single colours make more sense with different breeds for each .. seems like a lot of work to avoid Dyeing though, which is better (more flexible) as same white wool can be used for any colour ;) | |
| Feb 16 at 9:26 | comment | added | D'Monlord | @Pelinore - indeed. From hard science tag description: "For questions that require unequivocal proof that answers are correct through the use of equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, etc". Scientific papers are filed for peer review, they prove nothing and by their nature are in doubt. The only way to equivocally prove this breeding can be done is to actually do it. | |
| Feb 16 at 9:18 | comment | added | Pelinore | Maybe switch the [hard science] tag out for the [science based] one, people are going to find it hard to find actual research papers for any elements of this I feel, the best you can probably hope for is some Wikipedia links to illustrate some basics behind their reasoning I think, I could be wrong of course but the hard science tag doesn't seem necessary for this one to me. | |
| Feb 16 at 9:07 | comment | added | user6760 | something is seriously wrong with me, I've been trying to coax a Angora rabbit to do something to a Chrysospalax golden mole since they are similar in size and you need wool right? | |
| Feb 16 at 8:18 | answer | added | D'Monlord | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 16 at 7:42 | history | notice added | L.Dutch♦ | Hard Science | |
| Feb 16 at 7:28 | history | asked | Vakus Drake | CC BY-SA 4.0 |