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Cartoon illustrating the three-beam (model 1) and two-beam models of thin-film reflectance from feather barbules used in this study. The ambient layer is air and the top layer is keratin, while the circles represent melanin granules. The lines with arrows represent beams of light reflected and phase shifted by interfaces between materials of different refractive indices.
