At 07:44 PM 4/6/2010, Harry Veeder wrote:
Amazing. Especially the octopus near the end of the video.
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_gallo_shows_underwater_astonishments.html
The disappearing octupus is just plain astonishing. Pulling up the
coloring is cool. Pulling up patterns is really cool. But imitating
texture? That is beyond cool. It is, indeed, jaw-dropping amazing. My
questions:
How much of this is a "programmed specific camouflage ability"? I.e.,
specific to that texture, that color? Could the octopus do this with
a different texture? I assume it could do it with a different color,
but that's also a question, what's the range of colors?
