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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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And the pterosaur is cool too. Especially the color scheme. And the way the wings turn up at the tips. Like the tips of a bird's wings. It seems like the wings are oddly short, though. Usually I see pterosaur skeletons reconstructed with proportionally very long and narrow wings for their bodies compaired to similarly sized birds. This one's wings seem short, though, even short than a bird's would be. Or is that just a trick of perspective?
The turned-up wingtips were inspired by some computer modelling done for the Stanford-NG Pterosaur project; pterosaur wing outer wing spars were really flexible--which I don't show enough of in my paintings.
P.S. Thanks for the log-praising.
Anyway, I was going to ask about the wingtips. How did they acheive that kind of flex? Was the tip of the finger made of particularly flexible bone? Or did they have weird joints on those last digits? And how flexible are we talking here? Like as flexible as the pinions on a bird?
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The bone was flexible - there was next to no extra flexibility at the joints (there might even have been less, because the bone's thicker there, but I don't remember all that clearly). The entire wing finger was flexible, but obviously most flexible at the tip. To be honest I don't remember the exact extent -- but I got the impression the wing finger overall would be able to flex like the outer wing of a bird (wrist to feather tip).