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Photonic Crystals Diagram:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Introduction-to-Photonic-Crystals-%3A-Bloch-%E2%80%99-s-%2C-%2C-%28-Johnson/5fad2dacf3b86b2748e5910f1ea64be1ebec2936/figure/3

Photonic Glass Diagram:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Anisotropic-photonic-glass-APG-is-fabricated-in-the-bulk-of-the-glass-by-direct-laser_fig1_310823471

Bragg Reflectors Diagram:

https://www.batop.de/information/r_Bragg.html

Diffraction Gratings Diagram:

https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/University_Physics_%28OpenStax%29/University_Physics_III_-_Optics_and_Modern_Physics_%28OpenStax%29/04%3A_Diffraction/4.05%3A_Diffraction_Gratings

Quasi-crystal Diagram:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Geometric-structure-of-the-Tsai-type-quasicrystal-QC-and-approximant-crystal-AC-1_fig1_318197452

Thin film interference:

https://physics.highpoint.edu/~jregester/potl/Waves/InterferenceColors/interfcolors.html

Ref

Fabbri, Matteo; Wiemann, Jasmina; Manucci, Fabio; Briggs, Derek E. G.

(2020). "Three-dimensional soft tissue preservation revealed in the skin

of a non-avian dinosaur". Palaeontology. 63 (2): 185–193.

doi:10.1111/pala.12470

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