Lin Hsin Hsin Butterfly Farm
Launch Date: August 19, 2020
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Butterfly
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Motion
🦋 1,000 tiny hairs that help with its movement
🦋 don't fly in straight line
🦋 erratic flight
🦋 don't exactly sleep
🦋 bask in the sun
Written in the language of mathematics in its purest form
-- these parametric equations can be authored
to exude the elegance and charm of the wings of flight
The butterfly wings at cell level, graphs the butterfly flight path
executed by its 3Fs in the air:
🦋 flap
🦋 flit
🦋 flutter
📍 direct
📍 indirect
& hence presenting
movements in transient
butterflies achieve their swoops & tumbles
by generating a lot of extra turbulence
with each wing beat constantly adjust their centre of gravity
by shifting the position of their body & wings
Monarch butterfly is an expert
they can effect a 90° turn in < a single body-length
Flight Profile
Velocity
min: few hours to travel just 1 kilometer
max: fly for as long as 10 kilometers
Distance
peak: 100 kilometers per day
Altitude
@ altitudes of up to 2,000 feet
& stay aloft for up to 20 minutes
Migration
Flying up to 4023 kilometers from the 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 where they breed
down to the forests in central 🇲🇽 where they hibernate