I followed the Houdini feather tutorial referred above for a basic feather and the tweaked it to make it look like a peacock feather. I start off with a line for the main stalk and applied a distance ...

Journal Reference: Bin Wang, Marc André Meyers. Light Like a Feather: A Fibrous Natural Composite with a Shape Changing from Round to Square. Advanced Science, 2016; 1600360 DOI: 10.1002/advs ...

Add the Feathers From the base, draw long, rounded feather shapes spreading out in a wide fan shape. You can draw as many feathers as you like, making sure they are evenly spaced. Decorate the ...

Adaptation of feathered dinosaurs and Mesozoic birds to new ecological niches was potentiated by rapid diversification of feather vane shapes. The molecular mechanism driving this spectacular ...

Fluttering Feathers Could Spawn New Species Fork-tailed flycatchers make a fluttering sound with their wings—but separate subspecies have different “dialects” of fluttering.