Butterfly, rendered as a living particle cloud

Field notes

The page replays 18 short flight segments from five Papilio polytes butterflies, captured at 500 frames per second and inspected through orbit, playback-speed, trajectory, trail, and frame controls. Body position and two forewing markers drive the animation; the thousands of particles are an illustrative surface rather than a complete anatomical scan. The project identifies its motion data as Chen et al., MIG 2022, and links the published dataset, paper, coordinate mapping, and reproducible conversion.