Viceroy Butterfly Notes

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Early drafts of the Viceroy Butterfly The image to the left shows a few steps in the process of converting the old Red Butterfly template into a new Viceroy Butterfly template. By the time I was done, there was nothing left of the original template, thus, this Viceroy butterfly is a new butterfly, not just a new version of the old Red Butterfly. I also used different colors for the final finished version of the Viceroy Butterfly.

Templates of the original Red Butterfly, and Viceroy Butterfly The image to the right shows the 1999 Red Butterfly template, on top (the template color was darkened in this image). I had thought I was going to just make a new version of the old template, to convert it into a true Viceroy butterfly template, but soon found that the need changes were far more extensive than I had though. By the time I was done, it was a new template, not just a revised template.

The bottom image is the finished Viceroy Butterfly template.

False-color, Blue Viceroy Butterfly The image to the left is an alternate, false–color, blue version, of the 2015 Viceroy Butterfly.

I plan to add at least one or two other versions of this butterfly, to this page, in time. I want to make a true–color, red version of this Viceroy too. By the way, the Viceroy at the top of the page is in true–colors, except that I used the underside wing colors on top of the wings. Viceroy butterflies, in nature, come in a few different shades and colors.

Michael A. Crane, Jr.
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